Amanda Gefter

Amanda Gefter is a physics and cosmology writer and a consultant for New Scientist magazine, where she formerly served as books and arts editor and founded CultureLab. Her writing has been featured in New Scientist, Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, Astronomy.com, and The Philadelphia Inquirer . Gefter studied the history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and was a 2012-13 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is...See more

Amanda Gefter is a physics and cosmology writer and a consultant for New Scientist magazine, where she formerly served as books and arts editor and founded CultureLab. Her writing has been featured in New Scientist, Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, Astronomy.com, and The Philadelphia Inquirer . Gefter studied the history and philosophy of science at the London School of Economics and was a 2012-13 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is her first book. See less