Ed Yong
Science Writer, The Atlantic
Ed Yong is an award-winning science writer, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic and New Scientist, among others. He is a writer for The Atlantic, and the author of I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016) and An Immense World: A Journey Through the Animal Kingdom’s Extraordinary Senses (2022). He lives in Washington, DC.
Written by Ed Yong
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Biology
Coincidental killers
We assume that microbes evolved to attack humans when actually we are just civilian casualties in a much older war
Ed Yong
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Ecology and environmental sciences
Ant farm
History tells us that plant diseases cause famines, pestilence and war. Now one is coming for our chocolate
Ed Yong
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Biology
Microbes have no morals
First we learned to fear germs, then we learned to love our microbiome. But both sides get the biology basically wrong
Ed Yong