Nidhi Subbaraman covers science and technology as a staff writer for BetaBoston, The Boston Globe's innovation channel. Before that, she reported news and features for the science/tech desk at NBC News Digital. Subbaraman has also been a contributing writer at Fast Company and MIT Technology Review. Her freelance work has appeared at Sfari.org, New Scientist, Nature News, Scientific American and others. She has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a degree in science writing from MIT.