Covering long Covid solidified my view that science is not the objective, neutral force that it is often said to be. The most familiar of settings can feel newly unfamiliar through the senses of...

Dec 11, 2023 · Mr. Yong is a science writer who covered the Covid-19 pandemic. In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, when many people who are now still sick were first infected, the common wisdom was...

He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: AN IMMENSE WORLD, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals; and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes. An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize; it was also a ...

Ed Yong is a former staff writer at The Atlantic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ed is also the recipient of the George...

Ed Yong talks about “An Immense World,” and Terry Alford discusses “In the Houses of Their Dead.” Ed Yong’s book urges readers to break outside their “sensory bubble” to consider the …

Jan 2, 2025 · Last spring Yong penned an opinion essay for the New York Times entitled When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place. Yong wrote about the rapid pro­gression of his “birder derangement syndrome,” and how he was finding that rather than an escape from reality, birding felt like an “immersion in the true reality.”

Aug 9, 2016 · From Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Yong, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin—a “microbe’s-eye view” of the world that reveals a marvelous, radically reconceived picture of …

Enter a new dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields.

On journalism, science writing and my career—a conversation as part of New York University’s Inside/Out series

Staff writer at The Atlantic and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Does Public Health Need a Reboot. Register for the event: bit.ly/PublicHealthReboot. Ed Yong is a science journalist who reports for The Atlantic. He is based in Washington, DC.