Imaan Moin
Associate Producer
Imaan Moin is an associate producer for Science Friday. She particularly enjoys super-small science stories (especially about microbes and biomolecules), but she’s always up for talking about Texas and how everything is bigger there.
Before joining Science Friday, Imaan was a reporting fellow at New Hampshire Public Radio and an assistant producer and broadcast journalist for the BBC World Service, working on their global science and current affairs programs such as Unexpected Elements, CrowdScience, Health Check, Science in Action, and Newshour. She studied biochemistry at Mount Holyoke College and holds a master’s degree in science media production from Imperial College London.
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Why are armadillos moving up north?
Armadillos are turning up in states like Kentucky and Illinois, far from their warm southern habitats. Why are they moving north?
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What was life like for Tyrannosaurus rex?
T. rex may be the most famous prehistoric predator, but life wasn’t always bone-snapping chomps and food chain scaremongering.
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Why are we changing the way we keep time?
Timekeeping scientists around the world voted to stop using leap seconds, but what does this mean for us?
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What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast?
El Niño is driving a Kelvin wave up the West Coast, raising sea levels. What is it, and how does it work?
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The punk rock life of cephalopods
This Cephalopod Week, we’re talking death spirals, cannibalism, and giant squid dissection.