Knvul Sheikh


Knvul Sheikh is a freelance science journalist based in New York. She writes about psychology, personalized medicine, genetics and culture. She served as web editor for Genome magazine, and her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, Popular Science, Scientific American and Vice, among others.

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Spotted around the web: Week of 20 May 2019

By Knvul Sheikh
23 May 2019 | 2 min read
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Spotted around the web: Week of 6 May 2019

By Knvul Sheikh
10 May 2019 | 2 min read
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Spotted around the web: Week of 22 April 2019

By Knvul Sheikh
26 April 2019 | 2 min read
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Spotted around the web: Week of 8 April 2019

By Knvul Sheikh
12 April 2019 | 3 min read
Busy street scene in China
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New figures for autism prevalence in China point to previous neglect

By Knvul Sheikh
11 April 2019 | 4 min read

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