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Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London. Her work at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics won her the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2020. Her book <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691237480/the-beauty-of-falling">The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity</a> tells the fascinating personal story of de Rham’s quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. She is an active campaigner against the underrepresentation of girls in physics.

Claudia de Rham

Physics

Making Light of Gravity

Katharine Gammon is a freelance science writer based in Santa Monica, California, who writes about environment, science, and parenting. You can find her on X (formerly known as Twitter) @kategammon.

Katharine Gammon

History

The Age of Rebellion

Rebecca Batley is a historian and writer, specializing in women’s history. She has worked for, among others, the Museum of London and Wessex Archaeology. Her work has appeared in numerous publications all over the world.

Rebecca Batley

The Feminist Botanist

Liz Greene is the managing editor at Nautilus.

Liz Greene

General

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Michael Inzlicht is a psychologist at the University of Toronto, where he conducts research at the boundaries of social psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Follow him on X <a href="//twitter.com/minzlicht”">@minzlicht</a>.

Michael Inzlicht

Psychology

The Psychology of Getting High—a Lot

Zoology

The Shark Whisperer

Tom Metcalfe is a science journalist based in London, where he writes mainly about space, energy, archaeology, Earth, and the oceans. He has written for Scientific American, National Geographic, Live Science, NBC News, BBC News, and others.

Tom Metcalfe

Astronomy

Nine Rebel Astronomy Theories That  Went Dark

Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, is the author of Empire of Light: A History of Discovery in Science and Art and other writings about science in art and culture.

Sidney Perkowitz

Environment

The Part-Time Climate Scientist

Shruti Ravindran is a writer and producer presently based in Brooklyn.

Shruti Ravindran

The Bad Trip Detective

Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist, and writer. He is currently a fellow at the Berggruen Institute, a research fellow at the Long Now Foundation, a research associate at the University of Arizona, principal philosopher at Earth Law Center, and an artist-in-residence at Hyundai, the SETI Institute, and Flux Projects. His most recent book is You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future. He is currently writing a field guide to more-than-human governance.

Jonathon Keats

Arts

A Revolution in Time

Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. He is the author of Your Place in the Universe: Understanding our Big, Messy Existence.

Paul M. Sutter

Lithium, the Elemental Rebel

Rebecca R. Helm is an assistant professor of biology at the University of North Carolina Asheville, where she studies the ecology and evolution of life in the open ocean.

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