I’m a science journalist and researcher at The Watchers, contributing to the Epicenter edition, where I cover peer-reviewed scientific research and emerging discoveries across Earth and space sciences. With a background in astronomy and a passion for environmental science, I’ve worked in shark and coral conservation in Fiji, conducting reef and shark-behavior research, contributing to mangrove restoration, and earning PADI Open Water and Coral Reef Certifications. I bring a blend of scientific rigor and storytelling to illuminate the discoveries shaping our planet and beyond.
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS brightened sharply and turned bluer as it passed perihelion on October 29 2025, according to a new preprint by Q. Zhang and K. Dattams and commentary by astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
Scientists at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory used the Tianma 65 m Radio Telescope in China to detect hydroxyl and ammonia radio emissions from comet 12P/Pons-Brooks between December 2023 and March 2024, marking the most distant ammonia detection ever recorded in a Halley-type comet and revealing how volatile gases drive its powerful outbursts.
Five unoccupied houses in the village of Buxton, Hatteras Island, collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 28, according to the National Park Service (NPS), bringing the month’s total to 15 homes lost along the Outer Banks. The NPS said two homes fell in the morning, at 10:45 local time (LT) and 11:00 LT, and…
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1 ATLAS) will reach its perihelion distance of about 1.36 AU from the Sun on October 29, 2025, marking the midpoint of its one-time passage through the Solar System. The hyperbolic object will be unobservable from Earth during the event but will later pass within 97 million km (60 million miles) of Venus and 54 million km (34 million miles) of Jupiter on its way out of the system.
A new study published recently in Geosphere finds that some of the largest earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone may have triggered nearly simultaneous ruptures on California’s San Andreas fault. The discovery suggests that the “really big one” in the Pacific Northwest could cascade southward, affecting much of the U.S. West Coast in a single sequence.
A solidified magma body formed about 15 million years ago beneath Japan’s Noto Peninsula may have intensified the M7.6 earthquake that struck the region at 16:10 JST (07:10 UTC) on January 1, 2024, according to a Science Advances study by Tohoku University. The ancient magma appears to have trapped stress below the crust until its failure triggered one of Japan’s strongest inland quakes in decades.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected heavy water in the planet-forming disk around V883 Ori, a young star 400 parsecs (1 300 light years) away in Orion. This first-ever discovery of doubly deuterated water (D₂O) shows that some planetary water predates the stars themselves.
A new study in Geophysical Research Letters published on October 21, 2025, shows that most shear wave splitting in Alaska’s subduction zone originates inside the sinking slab itself, overturning the long-held view that mantle flow is the main cause.
Scientists have directly observed small-scale torsional Alfvén waves in the Sun’s corona for the first time using the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, as reported in Nature Astronomy on October 24, 2025.
A study in Geophysical Journal International introduces a Radiation Boundary inversion algorithm that accelerates three-dimensional magnetotelluric modelling, producing sharper, faster images of Earth’s crust and mantle across continental scales.
