Hello. I’m a science reporter, formerly at the Wall Street Journal.

I've spent over a decade in national newsrooms delivering scoops and enterprise stories on science and health. At the Journal, I covered science through the lens of money and power, tracking the conflicts that arise when politicians or interest groups use the tools of research to advance their agendas. Recently this meant tracking the Trump administration’s cuts at NIH and health agencies and the fallout of those actions, as universities scrambled to replace federal dollars and public health groups led legal fights. I’ve also written extensively about the internal crisis of fraudulent science confounding researchers and top scientific journals.

Previously, I was a senior reporter at Nature, covering the NIH and biomedical research, and before that, I was a science reporter and news editor at BuzzFeed News. I also covered science and technology at The Boston Globe and NBCNews.com.

Email is the best way to reach me: nidhi.subbaraman@protonmail.com.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

 
 

NATURE

 

BUZZFEED NEWS

 

Poison In The Pipes Secret documents show that New Orleans failed to test for lead in the city’s highest risk homes — and covered it up for years. (2019)

Some Called It Vigilante Justice After #MeToo, an anonymous letter spread explosive allegations about a UC Santa Cruz professor. It worked. (2018)

Shit Stirrers Meet the people doing fecal transplants the government doesn’t want them to. (2017)

“It’s Just Another Way Of Killing Our People” This tribe is suing the US government to keep its pledge to provide healthcare on the reservation. (2016)

 

THE BOSTON GLOBE

She mastered the art of science photography Felice Frankel has claimed a front-row seat to some of the biggest discoveries in science.  (2015)

A way to stay clean without soap? OpenBiome’s "AO+ Mist" has found an earnest following among millennials exploring new ways to stay clean. (2015)

A walking tour of the heart After 34 years developing 3-D software for airplane designers and automobile engineers, Dassault is moving into organs. (2015)

At Cafe ArtScience, food is the next frontier This Harvard scientist’s high-tech tinkering has produced breathable chocolates and pods of frozen yogurt wrapped in an edible skin. This is his restaurant. (2014)

 

NBC NEWS 

Mystery rot threatens starfish on US coasts From Orange County to Alaska, leggy echinoderms are shedding their limbs and "melting" away. (2013)

Hundreds of dolphins are dying in the Atlantic and no one knows why A silent plague is claiming the lives of scores of bottlenose dolphins off the coast. (2013)

As dolphin die-off nears record high, shutdown puts investigation on ice The government shutdown is leaving research centers with freezers full of dead dolphins (2013)

The bird mummies of Natron Natron is the chosen mating ground of the endangered lesser flamingo. To any other creature, it's hell on earth. (2013)