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Jake Currie is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

Jake Currie

Zoology

Here’s Why Locusts Swarm

Marina Dubova is a complexity postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where she studies the cognitive processes underlying scientific discovery using computational and empirical methods. She holds a Ph.D. in cognitive science from Indiana University and will join the University of California, Berkeley psychology department as an assistant professor in fall 2026.

Marina Dubova

History

The Thrill of Science in 2042

Physics

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Scott Solomon is a biologist and science writer based in Houston. He teaches ecology, evolutionary biology, and scientific communication at Rice University where he is a professor in the department of BioSciences. His first book, Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution, was published on Oct. 25, 2016 by Yale University Press.

Scott Solomon

Genetics

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Health

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Sociology

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Rebecca Boyle is a science journalist based in Colorado Springs. She is a columnist for Atlas Obscura, a contributing editor at Scientific American, a contributing writer at Quanta, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many other publications.

Rebecca Boyle

Astronomy

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Devin Reese is the executive editor of Natural History and a science writer based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Devin Reese

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Elena Kazamia is a science writer from Greece. She has a master’s degree in conservation from University College London and a Ph.D. in plant sciences from the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

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