about
As a kid, I was dead set on one day becoming the next famous meteorologist or pharmacist.I was fascinated by trips to the Museum of Science in Boston, where I could pretend to be a scientist even though I couldn't speak English well, as my entire family moved to the Boston area from Ukraine a few years before I was born. Admittedly, I'm obsessed with my babushka’s borscht.All through high school and into college, I worked at the Museum of Science teaching science in the very same exhibit I once visited as a kid. My favorite part of the job: putting on a giant bee costume to teach young visitors how bees make honey.I studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown University. After graduating, I was awarded the 2020 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, where I covered science at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Today, I write for Nature as a life-sciences reporter.My work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Quanta Magazine, The Scientist, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Behavioral Scientist, and RI Public Radio.In my free time, I love to rock climb, book last-minute travel, and devour just about every journalistic piece I come across.To this day, I'm still fascinated by the weather and medicine and, who knows, hopefully I'm making childhood Max proud by writing about science.
selected highlights
A full list of stories written for Nature can be found here.
Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon. Here’s what you need to know
Nature
September 14, 2023
What does ‘brain dead’ really mean? The battle over how science defines the end of life
Nature
July 11, 2023
How record wildfires are harming human health
Nature
November 24, 2021
New genomic study of placenta finds deep links to cancer
Quanta Magazine
April 8, 2021
Cloud-making aerosol could devastate polar sea ice
Quanta Magazine
February 23, 2021
Republished in The Atlantic as
"The Arctic Has a Cloud Problem"
Monkeypox in Africa: the science the world ignored
Nature
June 23, 2022
Follow-up: "WHO may soon end mpox emergency — but outbreaks rage in Africa"
Jelly reignites debate on remote species identification
The Scientist
July 11, 2023
Won "Best Pick" of
SciShortform roundup
So you got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
Nature
July 24, 2024
The controversial embryo tests that promise a better baby
Nature
September 21, 2022
How a scandal in spider biology upended researchers’ lives
Nature
August 10, 2022
Japanese beetles have wreaked havoc on plants. Researchers want to help.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 14, 2020
Science with borders: Researchers navigate red tape
The Scientist
March 2021 issue
sounds
I started my journalism career at Rhode Island's public radio station, The Public's Radio.
I reported news and produced episodes for a podcast called Possibly.
contact
Email me at maxdkozlov [at] gmail [dot] com or fill out the form below.If you're pitching me, please look at the kind of stories I write. I'm probably not interested in your new product or start-up.Or, if you prefer to reach out securely:
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