Nicola Jones

I feel like I've seen news headlines screaming "water found on Mars!" ever since I first started doing science journalism back in 2000, and likely long before that, too. Of all the evergreen stories, this is perhaps the longest-running of them all! My update for Knowable magazine: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2025/ghost-rivers-hidden-lakes-history-of-search-water-on-mars

One scientist trying hard to save environmental justice data and tools from erasure during the Trump administration: my story for Yale https://e360.yale.edu/features/eric-nost-interview

A survey of hundreds of AI researchers by the AAAI finds that most don't think 'scaling up' nor neural nets alone will be sufficient to get us to human-level artificial intelligence. The report, released at the annual meeting of the Association, calls for a broader focus of research on all kinds of AI, including 'symbolic AI', sometimes called 'good old fashioned AI'. My story for Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00649-4