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Nautilus

Avery Schuyler Nunn is a California-based science storyteller. She has contributed words and photographs to National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Grist, Whalebone Magazine, and The Inertia, among other publications.

Avery Schuyler Nunn

Zoology

Whale Sharks on Collision Course

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

The Demolition Ants

Hillary Rosner is an award-winning science journalist and assistant director of the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her stories about the natural world have appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and dozens of other publications.

Hillary Rosner

Ranchers, Cattle, Tequila, and Bats

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.

Elena Kazamia

Light Pollution Is Making Fish Anxious

The Bird Photo of the Year

Richard Smith is a marine biologist and conservationist, an award-winning underwater photographer, an acclaimed public speaker, and the leader of diving expeditions around the world; he’s been on more than 4,000 dives since 1996. Smith has written hundreds of articles with a primary focus on conservation and marine life. In 2018, he identified a new species of pygmy seahorse, having first photographed it five years previously.

Richard Smith

The Strange Romance of Seahorses

This Tiny Frog Is Fierce

April Reese is a freelance science writer and editor based in Portugal. Her reporting has appeared in Scientific American, Discover, bioGraphic, Science, Aeon, and many other outlets. She holds a master&#8217;s degree in Environmental Studies from the Yale School of the Environment.

April Reese

The Stealthy Assassin Robberfly

Laura Dattaro is a freelance science journalist who writes about the brain, genetics, and physics, among other topics. She also works as the communications coordinator for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. She has written for many outlets, including the Columbia Journalism Review, Spectrum, Slate, symmetry magazine, and The New York Times. She is based in New Jersey.

Laura Dattaro

How to Find Baby Sharks

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is freelance science journalist who covers quantum technology, AI, diversity within the tech industries, animal intelligence, corvids, and cephalopods. Her work has been featured in various publications, including National Geographic, Scientific American, New Scientist, Discover Magazine, Ars Technica, and Hakai Magazine, among others.