Geoff Brumfiel
Geoff Brumfiel works as a senior editor and correspondent on NPR's science desk. His editing duties include science and space, while his reporting focuses on the intersection of science and national security.
From April of 2016 to September of 2018, Brumfiel served as an editor overseeing basic research and climate science. Prior to that, he worked for three years as a reporter covering physics and space for the network. Brumfiel has carried his microphone into ghost villages created by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. He's tracked the journey of highly enriched uranium as it was shipped out of Poland. For a story on how animals drink, he crouched for over an hour and tried to convince his neighbor's cat to lap a bowl of milk.
Before NPR, Brumfiel was based in London as a senior reporter for Nature Magazine from 2007-2013. There, he covered energy, space, climate, and the physical sciences. From 2002 – 2007, Brumfiel was Nature Magazine's Washington Correspondent.
Brumfiel is the 2013 winner of the Association of British Science Writers award for news reporting on the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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The arrival of the new crew will pave the way for the return of two astronauts who have been "stuck" on the station since June of last year. -
President Trump and Elon Musk claim the Biden administration abandoned two astronauts in space. But the publicly available evidence suggests a different story. -
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will launch Wednesday to the International Space Station. It's expected to bring back two astronauts who've had an unexpectedly long stay that's become mired in politics.
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Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the correct position. The same thing happened last time. -
Starship had been expected to launch again Monday. A previous launch ended in an explosion over the Caribbean, and sent commercial airlines scattering to avoid falling rocket debris. -
Rose is one of thousands of federal workers who have been terminated by the Trump administration. At 26, she's left wondering what to do now. -
A 26-years-old had just started her first federal job at the Department of Energy. But she became one of the thousands swept up in the Trump administration's mass terminations of government workers.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees. -
President Trump and Elon Musk say they want to cut any excessive government spending. That includes sweeping cuts to the federal workforce, even those working in defense and national security.
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Employees across several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Education and Department of Energy, have all been affected, with many being given notice Thursday.