Kat McGowan is a journalist and editor focused on medicine and science. As an editor, she currently works with Grist and Neo Life; her most recent bylines were for Popular Science, Mother Jones, Scientific American, and STAT. She […]
Maryn McKenna is a freelancer focused on public and global health and food policy, the author of three books, and a senior fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University. She is […]
For nearly 15 years, George Musser was a senior editor at Scientific American focusing on astronomy and fundamental physics, but also covering topics from child psychology to arms proliferation. He thought of himself as the magazine’s Mars […]
Becky Lang is executive editor of the Kalmbach Media Science Group and editor-in-chief of Discover magazine, where she’s worked since early 2013. She moved to the magazine world from newspapers after 11 years as the […]
Sandeep Ravindran is a freelance science writer based in New York City. He has written about life sciences and technology for publications such as Smithsonian, National Geographic News, Nature, The Scientist, Wired, Popular Science, and Science News […]
Max Ufberg is the digital director of Pacific Standard, where he oversees the magazine’s online editorial operations. He joined the magazine in 2015 and has since written about a range of topics including addiction, the […]
Anahad O’Connor is a bestselling author and staff reporter for The New York Times. He covers consumer health, writing about topics such as nutrition, chronic disease, obesity, and the food industry. He joined the paper in 2003 and has […]
Chrissie Giles studied biochemistry at the University of Leeds in England. Concluding that clumsiness and practical science do not mix, she completed a master’s in science communication at Imperial College London in 2003 and has […]
Alicia Chang is a health and science editor for The Associated Press based in New York. She joined the AP in 2000 and served as the Los Angeles–based science writer for a decade. She is a […]
Annalee Newitz is the tech culture editor at Ars Technica and the founding editor of io9. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of popular tech site Gizmodo. She’s the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive […]
Rhitu Chatterjee is an editor with NPR’s The Salt blog, which covers a range of food related topics, like agriculture, health and nutrition, food policy, food history and culture. She edits and writes on all […]
Lizzie Wade is a freelance science journalist and a contributing correspondent for Science, where she covers archaeology, anthropology, and all things Latin America. She has lived in Mexico City for the last four years. Her writing […]
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