Rebecca Boyle is a freelance journalist based in St. Louis, Mo. She is a contributing writer for the Atlantic and her work regularly appears in Scientific American, FiveThirtyEight, Quanta and other publications. Rebecca primarily writes about astronomy, physics, geology, planetary science, and climate change. She was previously a staff writer at the Greeley Tribune in northern Colorado, where she covered crime and courts and was honored for outstanding beat reporting by the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters.

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