Aylin Woodward, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has left the news organization.
“Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small number of others worked hard to continue our former team’s legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on,” she wrote on social media.
She covered anthropology, space, climate change and other areas of science. Her articles delved into findings from ancient DNA about our ancestors, and the bones and lifestyles of extinct species. She examined the genetic underpinnings of human behaviors, aging, and athletic pursuits.
Woodward frequently wrote about archaeological discoveries, including those found through laser-mapping technology and artificial intelligence, and physics and quantum breakthroughs. Her features explored key NASA science missions, celestial spectacles and growing private industry efforts in space.
Aylin joined the Journal from Business Insider, where she was a senior reporter covering climate and Earth sciences. Prior to that, she was a paleoanthropology researcher and received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016 for work focused on hominin bipedalism.
She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, science communication master’s program and earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, magna cum laude.
