Dennis Normile has been a contributing correspondent for Science since 1995, reporting on government science policy, trends within the scientific community, and the latest experimental results throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Normile wrote extensively about the avian influenza crisis in the mid-2000s, reporting from Thailand, Vietnam and China. He has written numerous stories about the Tohoku, Japan, earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant meltdown of March 2011, focusing on scientific aspects of the calamity. His coverage of China includes recent stories on the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou Province, China’s missions to the Moon and Mars, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Normile's articles have also appeared in The New York Times, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Financial Times (UK), and other publications.