As of 2016, she has been a reporter for American bi-weekly magazine Science News.
In 2014, Conover earned her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.
[1] In 2015, while she was an intern at Science magazine, Conover won the D.C. Science Writers Association's 2015 Newsbrief Award in the Writing category for her 250-word article ScienceShot “How to prevent a sheep traffic jam," in which she details crowd behavior shared between sheep and humans.
[2] In 2018, she won the same award for her Science News article, “How ravens caused a LIGO data glitch,” making her the only person to receive two Newsbrief awards.
[1] In 2015, she began writing news for the American Physical Society.