ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN

AP science writer

Ramakrishnan is a science reporter for The Associated Press, based in New York. She covers research and new developments related to space, early human history and more.
A woman applies lip balm in Long Pond, Pa., Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Does lip balm help chapped lips? Here’s what to know
 
Scientists prepare to lower equipment used to detect neutrinos into the Mediterranean Sea. (Paschal Coyle, KM3NeT via AP)
An unusual ghost particle is spotted by a deep-sea telescope in the Mediterranean
 
This image provided by researchers in February 2025 shows the results of different methods of boiling eggs, with a new technique dubbed "periodic cooking" at right. (Emilia Di Lorenzo, Ernesto Di Maio via AP)
How to cook the perfect boiled egg, according to science
 
NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, satellites at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, March 2015. (NASA via AP)
Scientists detect chirping cosmic waves in an unexpected part of space
 
Taormina Lepore, foreground, who has low vision, walks with a white cane during an accessible field trip to the San Andreas Fault organized by the International Association of Geoscience Diversity Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in San Bernadino, Calif. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)
From the lab to the field, researchers with disabilities work to make science accessible
 
The photo provided by the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection shows fragments collected from a meteorite which fell in front of a resident's home in Marshfield, P.E.I., Canada, in July 2024. (University of Alberta Meteorite Collection/The Canadian Press via AP)
A meteorite strike was captured on video by a Canadian home’s doorbell camera
 
A youth looks through a telescope during a stargazing and comet-watching gathering at Joya-La Barreta Ecological Park in Queretaro, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme, File)
How to glimpse a parade of planets in the January night sky
 
The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Northern lights could be visible in upper fringes of the US this New Year’s Eve
 
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface
 
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before
 
The $300 million detector is seen at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory located 2297 feet (700 meters) underground in Kaiping in southern China's Guangdong province on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A new neutrino detector in China aims to spot mysterious ghost particles lurking around us
 
This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)
Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy
 
This image provided by National Museum, Prague shows the skull of an ancient human called Zlatý kůň, originally discovered in the Koněprusy caves of the Czech Republic. (Marek Jantač/National Museum, Prague via AP)
Ancient genes pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled
 
Weighted blankets on display in a Saatva mattress showroom in New York, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
What are the benefits of weighted blankets? Here’s what the science says
 
FILE - The northern lights appear over Anchorage, Alaska, early the morning of Friday, Oct.. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Northern lights may be faintly visible across parts of the US this Thanksgiving
 
This illustration provided by Marcin Ambrozik shows plant-eating dinosaurs in Poland during the Early Jurassic period. (Marcin Ambrozik via AP)
Fossilized dinosaur feces and vomit help scientists reconstruct the creatures’ rise
 
This image provided by Ana-Maria Cujba shows blood vessels in a portion of the human small intestine, March 21, 2024. (Ana-Maria Cujba/Wellcome Sanger Institute via AP)
Scientists map out the human body one cell at a time
 
CORRECTS LOCATION TO 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUCSON NOT IN TUCSON This Dec. 14, 2023 image made available by NOIRLab shows meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streaking across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, located about 56 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Tucson in the Tohono O’odham Nation. (NSF's NOIRLab via AP)
The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say
 
FILE - This China National Space Administration (CNSA) handout image released by Xinhua News Agency, shows the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon surface, June 4, 2024. (CNSA/Xinhua via AP, File)
The far side of the moon once had erupting volcanoes too
 
This image provided by Mariana Chuliver shows paleontologist Matías Motta at the fossil site "Estancia La Matilde" in Patagonia, Argentina showing an adult specimen of the fossil frog Notobatrachus degiustoi. (Mariana Chuliver via AP)
This ancient tadpole fossil is the oldest ever discovered
 
This illustration provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb, with a separation only 16 times larger than the distance between Earth and the Moon. The pair of stars orbits a cool M-dwarf star every 250 years. (K. Miller, R. Hurt/Caltech/IPAC)
Scientists realize they’re seeing double of a brown dwarf found decades ago
 
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, glows red in the sky above a barn, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, in East Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Missed out on the northern lights? Scientists expect more solar storms to produce auroras
 
In this photo provided by Schmidt Ocean Institute, experiments code-named "Mesh Box Staining Gadgets" are sealed to the seafloor at the Tica Vent, a site on the East Pacific Rise 2,500 meters deep. (Schmidt Ocean Institute via AP)
Tubeworms, snails and other weird creatures found under the seafloor
 
This photo provided by Nicolas Biver shows Comet C/2023 A3 (ATLAS-Tsuchinshan) as seen from Eure-et-Loir, France, June 6, 2024. (Nicolas Biver via AP)
How to watch comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas this October
 
This photo provided by NASA, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows a solar flare, the bright flash in the center of the image on Oct. 3, 2024. (Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA via AP)
Solar flares may cause faint auroras across top of Northern Hemisphere
 
FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows the "Sounds of Earth" record being mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. Aug. 4, 1977. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
NASA switches off instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power
 
This image provided by NASA shows an enhanced color view of Pluto’s big moon Charon captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 14, 2015. (NASA via AP)
NASA’s Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on the surface of Pluto’s largest moon
 
FILE - The moon moves in front of the sun during an annular solar eclipse, or ring of fire, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, as seen from San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse will dazzle parts of South America and the Pacific
 
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., center, presents a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Joylette Hylick, left, and Katherine Moore, daughters of Katherine Johnson, the Black NASA mathematician featured in the movie "Hidden Figures," at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. They are joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., second from right, and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
‘Hidden Figures’ of the space race receive Congress’ highest honor at medal ceremony
 
This undated image provided by Caltech, taken by Europe's LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) radio telescope, shows the longest known pair of black hole jets, as reported Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in the journal Nature. (LOFAR Collaboration/Martijn Oei/Caltech via AP)
Scientists detect longest pair of jets streaming from a supermassive black hole
 
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