Stories by Dan Vergano

Dan Vergano is a senior opinion editor at Scientific American. He was previously a science reporter and editor at Grid News, BuzzFeed News, National Geographic and USA Today. He is is chair of the New Horizons committee for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and a journalism award judge for both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

View of a living room through the window of a home where a television can be seen playing the US presidential debate with a split screen of Vice President Kamala Harris and former U.S. President Donald Trump on September 10, 2024

OpinionNovember 20, 2024

Grumpy Voters Want Better Stories—Not Statistics

A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House

Duncan Watts, Dan Vergano