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
June 21, 20214 min read5,455 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Bat genomes: unveiling the secrets of their superpowers
June 18, 20214 min read4,905 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Strip it out and build it back! Engineering a morphogen gradient
June 16, 20214 min read4,118 views - Earth & Space
Is the Sun a Sun-like star?
June 11, 20215 min read7,735 views - Earth & Space
Responding to sea-level rise: the importance of culture
June 10, 20214 min read5,100 views - Health & Physiology
Tiny barcodes for a global food chain
June 7, 20214 min read17,210 views - Neurobiology
Finding the one: what prairie voles can tell us about the drive to seek out our romantic partner
June 3, 20215 min read7,163 views - Health & Physiology
The clock as a frenemy: the importance of the biological rhythms in cancer prognosis
June 1, 20214 min read3,322 views - Earth & Space
Ice production on the hottest planet in our solar system
May 28, 20214 min read4,823 views - Earth & Space
Using satellites to look for floating plastics in the ocean
May 26, 20214 min read6,917 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How can a pathogen subvert honey bee social behaviors to increase its success?
May 21, 20214 min read4,164 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
The World’s Longest Nanoscale Chain
May 19, 20213 min read5,256 views - Psychology
How people think about risks, politics, and sustainable development
May 17, 20214 min read6,069 views - Neurobiology
How to counteract age when the nervous system is damaged
May 11, 20215 min read4,636 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Battling pollution by navigating particle traffic
May 10, 20214 min read3,800 views - Neurobiology
How our brain temporally organizes our memories of past events
May 7, 20214 min read6,553 views - Health & Physiology
A Nobel Prize technique in the fight against cancer
May 5, 20213 min read4,048 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Cheetah-inspired soft robots: how to make robots run fast?
May 4, 20214 min read4,481 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
The travel time of light inside the hydrogen molecule
May 3, 20213 min read5,711 views - Neurobiology
Artificial vision in the spotlight
April 29, 20213 min read4,961 views - Earth & Space
Understanding super bright mysteries of the universe
April 27, 20214 min read4,018 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Have the ancestors become too much to bear? Emergence of cremation 9000 years ago in the Near East
April 23, 20215 min read3,895 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How wombats poop cubes
April 21, 20214 min read23,003 views - Psychology
Overcoming this is going to be difficult: Suicide risk, stigma, and chronic fatigue syndrome
April 19, 20214 min read15,658 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Recovering data you have never seen
April 15, 20215 min read4,153 views - Psychology
Financial distress: Links to ADHD and suicide risk
April 13, 20214 min read4,434 views - Earth & Space
Are you going places? Mapping unequal access to services and opportunities worldwide
April 8, 20214 min read3,582 views - Earth & Space
Go with the flow: dams could have a far-reaching impact on fisheries in tropical rivers
March 29, 20214 min read4,878 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Extending the genomic record of human diversity
March 25, 20214 min read4,232 views - Neurobiology
Learning to stop: two types of neurons cooperate to adjust behaviour
March 19, 20214 min read5,102 views - Psychology
Can active learning in college classrooms disrupt patterns of under-representation in STEM?
March 18, 20213 min read5,498 views - Earth & Space
Will we soon witness the first summer without Arctic sea ice in 130,000 years?
March 17, 20214 min read4,383 views - Evolution & Behaviour
A ghost population of the Ice Age hidden in a Mexican cave
March 11, 20214 min read7,994 views - Earth & Space
Making the coral reef ‘A-list’
March 4, 20214 min read4,166 views - Neurobiology
Our blood may be making us smarter
March 1, 20214 min read5,284 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Saving the cadmium yellow pigments in The Scream
February 25, 20214 min read5,349 views - Earth & Space
Activating social tipping dynamics for a global decarbonization by 2050
February 23, 20213 min read3,598 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Same or different? The tale of a tangled molecule
February 19, 20214 min read4,126 views - Health & Physiology
eDiamond: A life-changing glucose monitoring solution for diabetics
February 18, 20213 min read5,418 views - Health & Physiology
Starving cancer: dietary modifications may enhance cancer therapy
February 15, 20213 min read4,020 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Reading South American history in the native Brazilian genomes
February 12, 20213 min read6,017 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Naturally occurring enzyme does the unexpected
February 9, 20213 min read3,555 views - Earth & Space
Microplastics are raining down from the sky
February 5, 20214 min read11,842 views - Earth & Space
Microfibers in the ocean: are they all made of plastic?
February 2, 20214 min read6,451 views - Earth & Space
How to stop a tragedy of the space commons
January 29, 20214 min read5,020 views - Earth & Space
Designer corals shine a bright light on the future of coral reefs
January 27, 20214 min read4,199 views - Health & Physiology
Vaping and oral health: Cloudy with a chance of disease
January 25, 20213 min read4,090 views - Earth & Space
A two decade long ballet of two stars reveals a rare twist
January 21, 20214 min read3,876 views - Psychology
I know you are calling me! – Fickle cats know their own names
January 19, 20214 min read5,696 views - Neurobiology
What makes us different - chance in brain development and its consequences for individuality
January 14, 20213 min read5,608 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Sneaking Giants: how humpback whales avoid scattering their fish prey
January 13, 20214 min read4,657 views - Psychology
Genes coordinating selfishness and altruism between parents and offspring
January 11, 20214 min read7,544 views - Evolution & Behaviour
How small warm-blooded feathered flying dinosaurs came to be
January 7, 20214 min read7,325 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Machine adapting to its environment
January 6, 20213 min read4,127 views - Earth & Space
What space dust could tell us about Earth’s past
January 5, 20213 min read4,044 views - Earth & Space
Can coral reef islands survive sea level rise?
December 21, 20204 min read6,370 views - Earth & Space
Digging up a dinosaur in a galaxy cluster
December 17, 20204 min read4,479 views - Earth & Space
Arid lands transform abruptly as aridity increases
December 15, 20203 min read7,000 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
Stress management in lithium-sulfur battery: some space to breathe
December 11, 20204 min read4,338 views - Earth & Space
Rising Water and Sinking Land: The Ganges Delta
December 9, 20203 min read11,611 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
A quantum step forward in high pressure science
December 7, 20204 min read4,126 views - Earth & Space
Hot currents: Global ocean circulation speeds up
December 4, 20203 min read3,894 views - Evolution & Behaviour
Beetles became an evolutionary success with help from stolen microbial genes
December 2, 20203 min read6,259 views - Maths, Physics & Chemistry
World’s first microscale ‘transformer’ robot
November 26, 20202 min read6,434 views - Earth & Space
U.S. Mineral Supply Chain Security in the Age of Pandemics and Trade Wars
November 23, 20204 min read8,209 views - Plant Biology
How a type of expanding thread dictates plant growth
November 12, 20202 min read11,463 views - Plant Biology
How scientists light up their tobacco
November 9, 20204 min read9,032 views