Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an award-winning science writer and former staff writer and deputy news editor for the London-based New Scientist magazine. He was the 2019-2020 MIT Knight Science Journalism fellow. He has been a guest editor for the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and organizes and teaches an annual science writing workshop at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bengaluru, India. His work has appeared in Quanta, Scientific American, Nature, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal and Discover. His book "The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe," (Mariner Books, 2010) was voted book of the year in 2010 by the U.K.'s Physics World.