Formerly the editor-in-chief of Motherboard, Derek’s passions lie in multimedia storytelling, international reporting, and telling human stories about science. He also loves birds.

Noelle Swan currently leads science, technology, and environment coverage at The Christian Science Monitor. Since joining the Monitor in 2013, she has worked as an... Read More

Michael Mechanic holds a master’s degree in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard and a master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley. He’s spent the past... Read More

Seth Fletcher’s second book, about a group of astronomers and their quest to take the first picture of a black hole, will be published in 2018... Read More

Shep Doeleman received his B.A. from Reed College in 1986, and soon after spent a year in Antarctica, where he conducted multiple space-science experiments at... Read More

Lisa Harvey-Smith is group leader for the Australia Telescope National Facility at CSIRO’s Astronomy and Space Science division. Her research tackles a range of topics including astrophysical masers, massive star... Read More

Josh Frieman is a senior staff member (Scientist III) in the Theoretical Astrophysics group at Fermilab and the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics. He is... Read More

Catherine Walsh studies molecules in space across the spectrum of molecular sources: from interstellar clouds – the birth places of stars, to protoplanetary disks and... Read More

Rachel Feltman has always believed in the power of poop science and Uranus puns. As founder of the Washington Post science blog “Speaking of Science,” she... Read More

Professor Harry Dugmore has a long-standing interest in the media’s ability to influence health behaviors and shape health identities. In the 1990s, he co-wrote the... Read More