Rebecca Boyle is a contributing editor atScientific American, a contributing writer for Quanta andThe Atlantic, and a frequent contributor at theNew York Times, Atlas Obscura, Popular Science,Smithsonian Air & Space, and many other publications. She is a member of the group science blog, The Last Word on Nothing. Boyle was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the recipient of numerous writing awards throughout her career. Her work has been anthologized multiple times in The Best American Science & Nature Writing.