Stephen S. Hall

Stephen S. Hall

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Stephen S. Hall has been reporting and writing about the intersection of science and society for more than 40 years. In addition to numerous cover stories in the New York Times Magazine, where he also served as a story editor and contributing writer, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Wired, Science, Nature, Scientific American and more. Hall is also the author of six critically acclaimed non-fiction books about contemporary science. Since 2007, he has served as an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.

Latest articles by Stephen S. Hall

A Burmese python in Florida hangs from a tree branch at dusk.

'An up-tempo version of Darwinian evolution': How a mega freeze in Florida may have caused Burmese pythons to evolve at a blindingly fast speed

By Stephen S. Hall published

"The 2010 cold snap may have created a subset of pythons better able to survive cold temperatures — and thus better adapted to spread beyond the northern boundaries of its current range."

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