Katherine Wright

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Mum, Physicist, Science Writer, and Deputy Editor for @physicsmagazine.bsky.social.

A photograph of a woman wearing safety googles. She is also wearing a yellow suit and holding two battery packs in her hands.
Strings of colored spheres depict the 3D array of detectors at the IceCube Observatory.
A close up of cerium in the periodic table. The background is black and the text is red.
A bird's eye view of a magnetic confinement fusion reactor.
An infinity sign on a painted background. Both the infinity sign and the background have a rainbow pattern.
A chart of square blocks, where each block corresponds to an isotope of thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and other nearby elements.
Silver spacecraft in space with Earth above.
A metal cylinder with a glass window.
A photograph of a man sat at a laptop. He is on a video conference with two men, a woman, and a cat.
A woman at a desk writing on a spiral bound notepad. She is holding the pen in her right hand and the pad in her left hand. On the desk is a small Christmas tree, the size of a mug.
A photograph of a book cover. The book is titled "Never give up" Dr Kati Kariko and the race for the future of vaccines. The image shows a woman with short brown hair and glasses at a lab bench. She is looking down. microscope. Behind her is an illustration of a stand of DNA.
Katherine Wright, a woman with short blonde hair, in a blue tshirt standing to the right of astronaut Steve Swanson. He is wearing a blue NASA jacket.
Large spider with striped legs hiding in a the leaves of a plant with long green stems.
This image shows the bottom of a black rocky cliff where it meets a pebbly beach. Rested against the cliff base is a hammer with a wooden handle and a metal end.