Brooke Borel is a freelance science writer and author based in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is a contributing editor at Popular Science and has also written for Slate, Aeon, and Nova Next, among others. Her first book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World, was published in 2015 from the University of Chicago Press with additional support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is working on a fact-checking guide, also for Chicago, which should publish in 2016.