Ed Yong
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Ed Yong on a tardigrade in the Micropia museum.
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| Born | Edmund Soon-Weng Yong December 1981 (age 35) |
| Residence | London |
| Nationality | British |
| Institutions | The Atlantic |
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| Thesis | Searching for the human resolvase (2005) |
| Known for | Not Exactly Rocket Science blog |
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Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 1981), commonly known as Ed Yong, is a British science journalist. As of 2016[update] his blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, is published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network. Previously his work has been published by Nature,Scientific American, the BBC,Slate,The Guardian,The Times,New Scientist,Wired,The New York Times and The New Yorker. He has been a permanent staff member of The Atlantic since 2015.
Yong was awarded Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from the University of Cambridge in 2002. He completed postgraduate study at University College London (UCL) where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2005 on the biochemistry of resolvases, a group of enzymes that repress transposases.
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