Amy Kraft
Amy Kraft is a print and radio reporter based in New York. She reports on science and the environment for publications including Scientific American, Discover, Popular Science, Psychology Today, and Distillations, a podcast out of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. She is currently working on a book of humor essays. You can check out more of her writing on her blog Jaded Bride.
Latest articles by Amy Kraft
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How a giant Manhattan building learned to stop murdering birds
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What's behind the cat cafe craze?
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The pain and regret of tattooing Jiminy Cricket on my breast
feature It seemed brilliant when I was 18. A decade later, not so much.
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I went to a My Little Pony convention for adults. And it was amazing.
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How to swallow a sword
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The quest to save Florida's orchids from extinction
feature One scientist aims to combat decades of over-harvesting and illegal poaching by hand-growing 1 million of the exquisite plants
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Exploring The Fly Room and the foundation of modern genetics
feature An unlikely collaboration between science and art results in the re-creation of a turn-of-the-century laboratory filled with fruit flies
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What I learned from taking an aquacycling class
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This amazing phone lets you text smells to your friends
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A macabre memorial to fallen birds
feature A Baltimore photographer tries to save the birds she loves with a touching, if grim, exhibition
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