Ariana Tantillo

Science writer and editor

Ariana Tantillo is a science communicator with experience at two federally funded research and development centers: MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory. She has written about everything from ingestible physiological sensors and high-performance computing to catalysts for artificial photosynthesis, materials with magnetic and superconducting properties, and autonomous systems for military applications. Her areas of expertise are science writing and editing.

Mon, 06/02/2025 - 12:02
Surface-Based Sonar System Rapidly Maps Ocean Floor at High ResolutionA small fleet of autonomous surface vessels forms a large sonar array for finding submerged objects
Thu, 01/23/2025 - 00:03
On June 18, 2023, the Titan submersible was about 90 minutes into its two-hour descent to the Titanic wreckage at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean when it lost contact with its support ship. This break in communication set off a frantic search for…
Communications System Achieves Fastest Laser Link From Space YetData sent from satellite to Earth at 100 Gbps, a rate that will transform future science missions
Wed, 12/21/2022 - 11:59
(MIT: Cambridge, MA) -- In May 2022, the TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) payload onboard a small CubeSat satellite was launched into orbit 300 miles above Earth’s surface. Since then, TBIRD has delivered terabytes of data at record-breaking rates…
Writing Code for a More Skilled and Diverse STEM WorkforceMost undergraduates don’t have the computational capabilities demanded by employers
Thu, 11/29/2018 - 12:02
The ability to program computers is crucial to almost all modern scientific experiments, which often involve extremely complex calculations and massive amounts of data. However, scientists typically have not been formally trained in science-specific…