About
Ayala’s interest in science started at a young age, with exposure to both popular-science and science-fiction. Her curiosity and enthusiasm for the natural sciences resulted in degrees in both chemical engineering and molecular biology, and a firm belief that the advancement of humanity depends on our ability to share, discuss and understand novel ideas. With great power comes great responsibility, and Ayala believes it is the responsibility of scientists to show the beauty and strength of science to the public. Still looking for the science-fiction novel hidden within her, she looks to science communication as a way to share new concepts, tools and discoveries with curious people from all walks of life.
Published Breaks
Edited Breaks
- Earth & Space
How life on Earth almost ended once
21/06/20214 min read5,584 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Bat genomes: unveiling the secrets of their superpowers
18/06/20214 min read5,020 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Strip it out and build it back! Engineering a morphogen gradient
16/06/20214 min read4,164 views - Earth & Space
Is the Sun a Sun-like star?
11/06/20215 min read7,921 views - Earth & Space
Responding to sea-level rise: the importance of culture
10/06/20214 min read5,156 views - Health & Physiology
Tiny barcodes for a global food chain
07/06/20214 min read17,286 views - Neurobiology
Finding the one: what prairie voles can tell us about the drive to seek out our romantic partner
03/06/20215 min read7,250 views - Health & Physiology
The clock as a frenemy: the importance of the biological rhythms in cancer prognosis
01/06/20214 min read3,378 views - Earth & Space
Ice production on the hottest planet in our solar system
28/05/20214 min read4,983 views - Earth & Space
Using satellites to look for floating plastics in the ocean
26/05/20214 min read7,024 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How can a pathogen subvert honey bee social behaviors to increase its success?
21/05/20214 min read4,207 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
The World’s Longest Nanoscale Chain
19/05/20213 min read5,432 views - Psychology
How people think about risks, politics, and sustainable development
17/05/20214 min read6,160 views - Neurobiology
How to counteract age when the nervous system is damaged
11/05/20215 min read4,677 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Battling pollution by navigating particle traffic
10/05/20214 min read3,832 views - Neurobiology
How our brain temporally organizes our memories of past events
07/05/20214 min read6,673 views - Health & Physiology
A Nobel Prize technique in the fight against cancer
05/05/20213 min read4,083 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Cheetah-inspired soft robots: how to make robots run fast?
04/05/20214 min read4,580 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
The travel time of light inside the hydrogen molecule
03/05/20213 min read5,808 views - Neurobiology
Artificial vision in the spotlight
29/04/20213 min read4,994 views - Earth & Space
Understanding super bright mysteries of the universe
27/04/20214 min read4,050 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Have the ancestors become too much to bear? Emergence of cremation 9000 years ago in the Near East
23/04/20215 min read4,015 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How wombats poop cubes
21/04/20214 min read23,805 views - Psychology
Overcoming this is going to be difficult: Suicide risk, stigma, and chronic fatigue syndrome
19/04/20214 min read15,783 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Recovering data you have never seen
15/04/20215 min read4,197 views - Psychology
Financial distress: Links to ADHD and suicide risk
13/04/20214 min read4,505 views - Earth & Space
Are you going places? Mapping unequal access to services and opportunities worldwide
08/04/20214 min read3,624 views - Earth & Space
Go with the flow: dams could have a far-reaching impact on fisheries in tropical rivers
29/03/20214 min read4,953 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Extending the genomic record of human diversity
25/03/20214 min read4,295 views - Neurobiology
Learning to stop: two types of neurons cooperate to adjust behaviour
19/03/20214 min read5,139 views - Psychology
Can active learning in college classrooms disrupt patterns of under-representation in STEM?
18/03/20213 min read5,635 views - Earth & Space
Will we soon witness the first summer without Arctic sea ice in 130,000 years?
17/03/20214 min read4,430 views - Evolution & Behaviour
A ghost population of the Ice Age hidden in a Mexican cave
11/03/20214 min read8,230 views - Earth & Space
Making the coral reef ‘A-list’
04/03/20214 min read4,292 views - Neurobiology
Our blood may be making us smarter
01/03/20214 min read5,324 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Saving the cadmium yellow pigments in The Scream
25/02/20214 min read5,450 views - Earth & Space
Activating social tipping dynamics for a global decarbonization by 2050
23/02/20213 min read3,630 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule
19/02/20214 min read4,257 views - Health & Physiology
eDiamond: A life-changing glucose monitoring solution for diabetics
18/02/20213 min read5,525 views - Health & Physiology
Starving cancer: dietary modifications may enhance cancer therapy
15/02/20213 min read4,084 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Reading South American history in the native Brazilian genomes
12/02/20213 min read6,193 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Naturally occurring enzyme does the unexpected
09/02/20213 min read3,617 views - Earth & Space
Microplastics are raining down from the sky
05/02/20214 min read11,922 views - Earth & Space
Microfibers in the ocean: are they all made of plastic?
02/02/20214 min read6,594 views - Earth & Space
How to stop a tragedy of the space commons
29/01/20214 min read5,086 views - Earth & Space
Designer corals shine a bright light on the future of coral reefs
27/01/20214 min read4,244 views - Health & Physiology
Vaping and oral health: Cloudy with a chance of disease
25/01/20213 min read4,126 views - Earth & Space
A two decade long ballet of two stars reveals a rare twist
21/01/20214 min read3,968 views - Psychology
I know you are calling me! – Fickle cats know their own names
19/01/20214 min read5,860 views - Neurobiology
What makes us different - chance in brain development and its consequences for individuality
14/01/20213 min read5,745 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Sneaking Giants: how humpback whales avoid scattering their fish prey
13/01/20214 min read4,731 views - Psychology
Genes coordinating selfishness and altruism between parents and offspring
11/01/20214 min read7,661 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How small warm-blooded feathered flying dinosaurs came to be
07/01/20214 min read7,526 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Machine adapting to its environment
06/01/20213 min read4,159 views - Earth & Space
What space dust could tell us about Earth’s past
05/01/20213 min read4,127 views - Earth & Space
Can coral reef islands survive sea level rise?
21/12/20204 min read6,475 views - Earth & Space
Digging up a dinosaur in a galaxy cluster
17/12/20204 min read4,576 views - Earth & Space
Arid lands transform abruptly as aridity increases
15/12/20203 min read7,182 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Stress management in lithium-sulfur battery: some space to breathe
11/12/20204 min read4,364 views - Earth & Space
Rising Water and Sinking Land: The Ganges Delta
09/12/20203 min read11,926 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
A quantum step forward in high pressure science
07/12/20204 min read4,175 views - Earth & Space
Hot currents: Global ocean circulation speeds up
04/12/20203 min read3,924 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Beetles became an evolutionary success with help from stolen microbial genes
02/12/20203 min read6,383 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
World’s first microscale ‘transformer’ robot
26/11/20202 min read6,517 views - Earth & Space
U.S. Mineral Supply Chain Security in the Age of Pandemics and Trade Wars
23/11/20204 min read8,266 views - Plant Biology
How a type of expanding thread dictates plant growth
12/11/20202 min read11,495 views - Plant Biology
How scientists light up their tobacco
09/11/20204 min read9,238 views