Ed Yong

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a Malaysian-born British science journalist. He is a permanent staff member at The Atlantic, which he joined in 2015. His work also has been published by Nature, Scientific American, the BBC, Slate, The Guardian, The Times, New Scientist, Wired, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. He created and wrote the now-defunct blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, which was published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network.