Rebecca Boyle

Rebecca Boyle is a columnist at Atlas Obscura and a contributor to Scientific American , Quanta Magazine, The Atlantic , The New York Times, Popular Science, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, 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. Her work has been anthologized three times in The Best American...See more

Rebecca Boyle is a columnist at Atlas Obscura and a contributor to Scientific American , Quanta Magazine, The Atlantic , The New York Times, Popular Science, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, 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. Her work has been anthologized three times in The Best American Science & Nature Writing . She is a former Space Camp attendee and lifelong Moon enthusiast. See less