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Nautilus

Megan Scudellari is a science writer based in Boston, specializing in the life sciences. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, Nature, Newsweek, and others. She is also co-author of a college biology textbook, <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324060789">Biology Now</a>.

Megan Scudellari

Evolution

The Last Hominin Standing

Liz Lindqwister is a writer originally from Peoria, Illinois. Her reporting on tech, culture, and history has appeared in the San Francisco Standard, STANFORD Magazine, the Library of Congress, and Vox’s Today Explained. A historian by training, Lindqwister holds degrees in early American studies from Stanford University and Cambridge University.

Liz Lindqwister

Zoology

This Tiny Frog Is Fierce

Telmo Pievani is a professor in the biology department at the University of Padua. A leading evolutionist, science communicator, and columnist for Corriere della Sera, he is the author of, among other books, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049153/serendipity/">Serendipity</a> and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548359/imperfection/">Imperfection</a>.

Telmo Pievani

History

Is Discovery Inevitable or Serendipitous?

John Steele is the publisher and editorial director of Nautilus.

John Steele

Environment

The Surfer and the Businessman

Sean Raymond is an American astrophysicist working at the <a href="https://astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr/?lang=en">Bordeaux Astrophysical Laboratory</a> in France. He also writes a blog at the interface of science and fiction (<a href="https://planetplanet.net/">planetplanet.net</a>) and published a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LFZZWGZ">book of astronomy poems</a>.

Sean Raymond

Geoscience

The Origin of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

Richard Powers is the author of 14 novels, including The Overstory, Bewilderment, and Orfeo. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Richard Powers

Arts

Our Magnificent Ocean

Cary Funk is the senior advisor for public engagement with science at the Aspen Institute Science &amp; Society Program.

Cary Funk

Sociology

What’s at Stake for Science in the US Presidential Election

CD Davidson-Hiers is a Florida journalist and essayist.

CD Davidson-Hiers

Frozen Reefs

Charles Digges is an environmental journalist who edits the website of the Norwegian environmental group Bellona.

Charles Digges

Astronomy

The Mystery of the Cosmic Radio Globs

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

Puberty Hasn’t Changed Since the Ice Age

Elena Renken is a science reporter focusing on the brain and medicine. Her work has been published by NPR, Quanta Magazine, and PBS NOVA.

Elena Renken

Psychology

When Do Kids Start Playing Pretend?

Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in The New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, which won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir, and was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and also of Kvetch as Kvetch Can. He lives and writes and draws in Evanston, Illinois.

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