Adam Becker

Adam Becker is a science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written for the New York Times , BBC, NPR, Scientific American , New Scientist , Quanta and many other publications. His first book, What Is Real? , was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and was longlisted for the PEN Literary Science Writing Award. He has been a science journalism fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He lives...See more

Adam Becker is a science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics. He has written for the New York Times , BBC, NPR, Scientific American , New Scientist , Quanta and many other publications. His first book, What Is Real? , was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and was longlisted for the PEN Literary Science Writing Award. He has been a science journalism fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and a science communicator in residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He lives in California. See less