Corinne Purtill

Corinne Purtill is a science and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing on science and human behavior has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Magazine, the BBC, Quartz and elsewhere. Before joining The Times, she worked as the senior London correspondent for GlobalPost (now PRI) and as a reporter and assignment editor at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She is a native of Southern California and a graduate of Stanford University. Her work primarily focuses on scientific discoveries, space exploration, and environmental issues. Purtill's articles often delve into the complexities of human behavior and its impact on our understanding of the world around us.

Biography:  https://www.latimes.com/people/corinne-purtill

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

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Conflicts of Interest

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Contradictions

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  • NASA engineers identified a failed memory chip as the cause of Voyager 1’s communication issue
  • True T. rex intelligence was likely much closer to that of modern-day crocodiles than primates.
  • ]Voyager 1 went quiet for five months in November 2021[

Deceptions

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Recent Articles

New Research Challenges Previous Notions of T. rex Intelligence: Cognitive Abilities More Similar to Reptiles Than Primates

New Research Challenges Previous Notions of T. rex Intelligence: Cognitive Abilities More Similar to Reptiles Than Primates

Broke On: Monday, 29 April 2024 New research challenges the notion that T. rex, previously thought to have had intelligence on par with primates or monkeys based on neuron count, actually had cognitive abilities more similar to those of lizards or crocodiles due to inflated brain-size estimates and the need to consider other factors beyond neuron count when assessing intelligence.
NASA Engineers Overcome Memory Chip Issue, Restore Communication with Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

NASA Engineers Overcome Memory Chip Issue, Restore Communication with Historic Voyager 1 Spacecraft

Broke On: Tuesday, 26 March 2024 NASA engineers successfully resolved a five-month communication issue with Voyager 1, the historic spacecraft launched in 1977, by manually reviewing and reorganizing corrupted code. Despite being over 15 billion miles away and facing challenges like limited memory and aging nuclear power systems, Voyager 1 continues to send valuable data back to Earth.