Katherine Courage
Deputy Editor, Future Perfect
Katherine Courage is a deputy editor for Vox’s Future Perfect section. She has been a journalist since 2009 covering science, the environment, and health — including the pandemic and its fallouts as a freelance reporter and editor for Vox. Prior to joining Vox full-time in 2025, she served as executive editor of Nautilus magazine.
She has written for The New York Times, NPR, Wired, STAT, and many other publications. She is the author of two nonfiction books — Cultured: How Ancient Foods Can Feed Our Microbiome and Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea. Her work has also been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. She got her start in journalism as a reporter at Scientific American, where she wrote about everything from immunology to dung beetles. She is currently passionate about uncovering ways structures — physical, social, and governmental — influence our lives.
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Latest articles by Katherine Courage
The new, easy-to-take antivirals are now on pharmacy shelves. This is who they stand to help the most.
An epidemiologist on the health risks of the omicron variant, child care issues, and the unique pandemic struggles of working parents.
Yes, we can have clean energy and tortoises too.
Nurses were struggling even before the pandemic. We have the tools to change that.
48 million people provide unpaid care to their loved ones in the US. Here’s how to help them.
They reproduce without mating and are rapidly chewing through soil across the US. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about “jumping” worms.
The CDC says we can now drop our masks outdoors in some cases. Experts explain where we still need to keep them on.
It may still be a while. Here’s what parents can do in the meantime while their kids aren’t vaccinated and others are.
Covid-19 shots during pregnancy might also pass on protection against the virus to babies.
Toddlers and teenagers might have pretty different summers.