Amy Maxmen is a freelance science journalist who writes about the latest findings in medicine, evolution and global health among other topics. She also writes about how scientists interact with the world. Her features, news stories, and blogs appear in a variety of outlets, including Nature, New Scientist, Science News, Psychology Today and the Lancet. Prior to writing, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University by spending a great deal of time in the ocean and beside a microscope in Honolulu.