Allison Whitten is a freelance science writer based in Nashville, TN.

Selected Writings:

Matt Curtis for Quanta Magazine The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses Quanta Magazine

Matt Curtis for Quanta Magazine

The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses
Quanta Magazine

GETTY IMAGES Why Pain Feels Worse at Night WIRED

GETTY IMAGES

Why Pain Feels Worse at Night
WIRED

Señor Salme for Quanta Magazine New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI Quanta Magazine

Señor Salme for Quanta Magazine

New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI
Quanta Magazine

ktsdesign/Shutterstock How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron? Quanta Magazine

ktsdesign/Shutterstock

How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?
Quanta Magazine

Serhii/Adobe Stock Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement Quanta Magazine

Serhii/Adobe Stock

Brain Chemical Helps Signal to Neurons When to Start a Movement
Quanta Magazine

Stephan Schmitz for Quanta Magazine By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways Quanta Magazine

Stephan Schmitz for Quanta Magazine

By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways
Quanta Magazine

Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology Quanta Magazine

Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine

AI Researchers Fight Noise by Turning to Biology
Quanta Magazine

Julia Dufosse for Grow Magazine Don't Shoot the Messenger Grow Magazine

Julia Dufosse for Grow Magazine

Don't Shoot the Messenger
Grow Magazine

VectorMine/Shutterstock How Our Brains Build Models of the World While We Sleep, Daydream and Hallucinate Discover Magazine

VectorMine/Shutterstock

How Our Brains Build Models of the World While We Sleep, Daydream and Hallucinate
Discover Magazine

Ellie Suh for Quanta Magazine Neuron Bursts Can Mimic Famous AI Learning Strategy Quanta Magazine

Ellie Suh for Quanta Magazine

Neuron Bursts Can Mimic Famous AI Learning Strategy
Quanta Magazine

AllaBond/Shutterstock Why Does the Placebo Effect Work for Some People But Not Others? Discover Magazine

AllaBond/Shutterstock

Why Does the Placebo Effect Work for Some People But Not Others?
Discover Magazine

Paşca Lab, Stanford University Lab-Grown Human Cells Form Working Circuits in Rat Brains Quanta Magazine

Paşca Lab, Stanford University

Lab-Grown Human Cells Form Working Circuits in Rat Brains
Quanta Magazine

Ivan Marjanovic/Shutterstock Honey as a Wound Treatment? Scientists Are Exploring Its Potential Healing Effects Discover Magazine

Ivan Marjanovic/Shutterstock

Honey as a Wound Treatment? Scientists Are Exploring Its Potential Healing Effects
Discover Magazine

Samuel Velasco for Quanta Magazine Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle Quanta Magazine

Samuel Velasco for Quanta Magazine

Gene Expression in Neurons Solves a Brain Evolution Puzzle
Quanta Magazine

sanjagrujic/Shutterstock If Humans Are Social Creatures, Why Did Social Anxiety Evolve? Discover Magazine

sanjagrujic/Shutterstock

If Humans Are Social Creatures, Why Did Social Anxiety Evolve?
Discover Magazine

Vignette for Quanta Magazine Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions Quanta Magazine

Vignette for Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians Prove Symmetry of Phase Transitions
Quanta Magazine

Heidelberg University AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware Quanta Magazine

Heidelberg University

AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware
Quanta Magazine

Constanza Hevia for Quanta Magazine The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data Quanta Magazine

Constanza Hevia for Quanta Magazine

The Computer Scientist Who Shrinks Big Data
Quanta Magazine

Bernardo Emanuelle/Shutterstock Children’s Immune Systems Differ From Adults. Here’s What That Could Mean for COVID-19 Discover Magazine

Bernardo Emanuelle/Shutterstock

Children’s Immune Systems Differ From Adults. Here’s What That Could Mean for COVID-19
Discover Magazine

Matt Twombly for Quanta Magazine Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials Quanta Magazine

Matt Twombly for Quanta Magazine

Galois Groups and the Symmetries of Polynomials
Quanta Magazine

Kellie Jaeger for Discover Magazine This Expert is Looking to Solve the Technology Ethics Equation Discover Magazine

Kellie Jaeger for Discover Magazine

This Expert is Looking to Solve the Technology Ethics Equation
Discover Magazine