Stories by Carin Leong

Carin Leong is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. Her projects have received support from Field of Vision, the Singapore International Film Festival, IN-DOCS, and the Tribeca Film Institute. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Hakai Magazine, and The Atlantic. She holds a master's degree in science journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and is also a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Two circular thumbnails showing a man and woman below the words "Your Health, Quickly," with an image of an engorged tick behind them

Public HealthSeptember 6, 2023

This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat

The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammalian products, and many doctors don’t know about it.

Josh Fischman, Tanya Lewis, Carin Leong, Alexa Lim

Images of the hosts of Your Health, Quickly

CognitionAugust 16, 2023

Hearing Aids Stave Off Cognitive Decline

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.

Josh Fischman, Tanya Lewis, Carin Leong, Elah Feder

An old black-and-white newsreel shows a man speaking to the camera and then a series of views of an atomic bomb detonation are seen

DefenseJuly 21, 2023

Here’s What Oppenheimer Gets Right—And Wrong—About Nuclear History

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

Lee Billings, Jeffery DelViscio, Carin Leong