Joseph D’Agnese is a frequent Discover contributor. His May 2002 article, “An Embarrassment of Chimps,” was serialized in The Best American Science Writing 2003 (Ecco Press). He is at work on a picture book for children based on the life of mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci.
David Ewing Duncan is a Discover contributing editor whose accolades include a 2003 journalism award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His most recent book is The Geneticist Who Played Hoops With My DNA (William Morrow, 2005).
Tim Folger is a Discover contributing editor as well as a series editor for the anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton Mifflin). He wrote the June 2005 cover story, “If an Electron Can Be in Two Places at Once, Why Can’t You?”
Jack Hitt is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and the public radio program This American Life.
John Horgan is a Discover contributing editor. His awards include two in journalism from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a National Association of Science Writers Science-in-Society Award. His most recent book is Rational Mysticism (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
Robert Irion writes for Science and won an award in 2003 from the high-energy astrophysics division of the American Astronomical Society for an article on neutron stars. He teaches in the science writing program at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Jennifer Kahn is a contributing editor at Wired magazine. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science Writing 2003 and 2004 as well as in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005.
Brad Lemley is a Discover contributing editor whose most recent article was “SpaceX,” the September 2005 cover story. He is also coauthor of Thos. Moser: Artistry in Wood (Chronicle Books, 2002).
Leonard Mlodinow has taught theoretical physics at Caltech and has written scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He and Stephen Hawking coauthored A Briefer History of Time (Bantam, 2005).
Jill Neimark is a novelist and poet as well as a science journalist who writes for The New York Times and The Economist. She is working on a book about altruism and health with bioethicist Stephen Post.
Judith Newman is a frequent Discover contributor whose May 2001 article, “I Have Seen Cancers Disappear,” was anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. She is the author of You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: Diary of a New (Older) Mother (Miramax Books, 2004).
Heather Pringle is a Discover contributing editor. Her article in the April 2001 issue, “Secrets of the Alpaca Mummies,” won an American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award.
Michael W. Robbins is a former editor in chief of Audubon and Oceans magazines. He is the coauthor of WoodsWalk: Peepers, Porcupines & Exploding Puffballs! What You’ll See, Hear & Smell When Exploring the Woods (Storey, 2003).
Ellen Ruppel Shell is a science correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and codirector of the graduate program in science journalism at Boston University. She wrote The Hungry Gene: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002).
Curt Suplee is the former science editor at The Washington Post, where he won an American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award for three articles on subatomic particles.
Clive Thompson is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He has recently finished an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and runs the science blog www.collisiondetection.net.
Daniel Wood received a special National Magazine Award for Canadians in 2004 and is the author of 15 books, including Wolves (Whitecap Books, 2005).
Carl Zimmer is a Discover contributing editor. His awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World (Free Press, 2004) was a New York Times Notable Book of 2004.
