Ed Yong

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong is a Malaysian-born British science journalist. He is a staff member at The Atlantic, which he joined in 2015. In 2021 he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier in his career, Yong created and wrote the now-defunct blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, which was published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network.

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‘The Interview’: Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World

Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ reveals how animals perceive the world