Megan Scudellari is a freelance science reporter based in Boston, Mass., specializing in the life and environmental sciences. She is a health columnist for the Boston Globe, a regular contributor to RetractionWatch.com, and has contributed to Newsweek, Bloomberg News, Scientific American, Discover, MATTER, Nature, Technology Review, and Pacific Standard, among others. For five years, she worked as a correspondent then a contributing editor at The Scientist magazine. She co-authored a college biology textbook, Biology Now, published in January 2015 by W.W. Norton.