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Shayla Love

Shayla Love is a journalist living in Brooklyn. She has an MA from Columbia University in science journalism. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Gothamist, BKLYNR, and bioStories Magazine.

Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science

Crystalline

By Shayla Love

It’s the winter of 1987, and my mother is sitting in her office at the University of Pittsburgh with a Big Mac and an electron density map. It looks like […]