Christie AschwandenW
Christie Aschwanden

Christie Aschwanden is an American journalist and the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight. Her 2019 book GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery, was a New York Times bestseller. She was awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2016 and serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

Howard W. BlakesleeW
Howard W. Blakeslee

Howard Walter Blakeslee was an American journalist. He was the Associated Press's first full-time science reporter and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1937.

John BohannonW
John Bohannon

John Bohannon is an American science journalist and scientist who is Director of Science at Primer, an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California. He is known for his career prior to Primer as a science journalist and Harvard University biologist, most notably with his “Gonzo Scientist” online series at Science Magazine and his creation of the annual “Dance Your PhD” contest. His investigative journalism work includes:critiquing the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties (2006) uncovering serious problems with the peer review process at a large number of journals that charge fees to authors (2013) showing how uncritical mass media can be of claims made in fake scientific papers (2015)

Peter M. BowersW
Peter M. Bowers

Peter M. Bowers was a journalist specializing in the field of aviation.

Alan BoyleW
Alan Boyle

Alan Boyle is an American journalist specializing in science and technology news. He worked for msnbc.com and NBC News Digital as science editor from 1996 to 2015. In 2015, he became aerospace and science editor for GeekWire. Boyle is also president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

William BroadW
William Broad

William J. Broad is an American science journalist, author and a Senior Writer at The New York Times.

Bethany BrookshireW
Bethany Brookshire

Bethany Brookshire is an American science journalist. She writes for Science News for Students.

Addington BruceW
Addington Bruce

Henry Addington Bayley Bruce, best known as H. Addington Bruce was an American journalist and author of psychology books.

Siri CarpenterW
Siri Carpenter

Siri Carpenter is an American freelance science journalist and editor living in Madison, Wisconsin. The author of multiple articles in Scientific American, Science, APA Monitor, and other publications, she is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook. In 2018 Carpenter was elected to a two-year term as president of the National Association of Science Writers.

Bruce DormineyW
Bruce Dorminey

Bruce Dorminey is an American science journalist and author who primarily covers aerospace, astronomy and astrophysics. He is a regular contributor to Astronomy magazine. Since March 2012, he has written a regular tech column for Forbes.com. He was also a correspondent for Renewable Energy World. He is host of the weekly aerospace and astronomy podcast, The Cosmic Controversy Podcast.

Laurie GarrettW
Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett is an American science journalist and author. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.

James GleickW
James Gleick

James Gleick is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology. Recognized for his writing about complex subjects through the techniques of narrative nonfiction, he has been called "one of the great science writers of all time". He is part of the inspiration for Jurassic Park character Ian Malcolm.

Don HerbertW
Don Herbert

Donald Jeffry Herbert was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard and Mr. Wizard's World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of "the friendly, neighborly scientist". In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's techniques and performances helped create the United States' first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world." Herbert is credited with turning "a generation of youth" in the 1950s and early 1960s onto "the promise and perils of science".

John Horgan (journalist)W
John Horgan (journalist)

John Horgan is an American science journalist best known for his 1996 book The End of Science. He has written for many publications, including National Geographic, Scientific American, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and IEEE Spectrum. His awards include two Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Writers Science-in-Society Award. His articles have been included in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 editions of The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Since 2010 he has written the "Cross-check" blog for ScientificAmerican.com.

Madeleine JacobsW
Madeleine Jacobs

Madeleine Jacobs was the CEO of the American Chemical Society (ACS) from 2004 to 2014, and the president and CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents from 2015 to 2016.

Katherine McAlpineW
Katherine McAlpine

Katherine "Kate" McAlpine is an American science journalist. In 2008 while working at CERN, McAlpine wrote, produced and performed in the YouTube video "Large Hadron Rap" under the pseudonym "alpinekat". As of September 2018, the video has been viewed over 8 million times.

Steve MirskyW
Steve Mirsky

Steve Mirsky is a writer for Scientific American, the host of the magazine's longform science podcast, Science Talk. and the producer of the daily 60-Second Science podcast. Mirsky has also written Scientific American's monthly “Anti Gravity” column since 1995.

David QuammenW
David Quammen

David Quammen is an American science, nature, and travel writer and the author of fifteen books.

Kiki SanfordW
Kiki Sanford

Kirsten "Kiki" Sanford is an American neurophysiologist and science communicator. After working at the University of California, Davis as a research scientist, she left research work to pursue a career in science communication. Her work has included multiple audio and video programs, including the This Week in Science radio program and podcast and Dr. Kiki's Science Hour, a podcast involving interviews with experts in a given scientific field.

Earl UbellW
Earl Ubell

Earl Ubell was an innovative science and health reporter, and editor primarily for the New York Herald Tribune and WCBS-TV from the late 1940s to the 1990s.

Bina VenkataramanW
Bina Venkataraman

Bina Venkataraman is an Indian-American science policy expert and journalist. She is currently the Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe and a fellow at the New America Foundation. She previously served as a Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation under President Barack Obama's administration and advised the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on the Ebola epidemic.