Steve Nadis

Steve Nadis is a Contributing Editor to Discover Magazine and a Contributing Writer for Quanta. His articles have also appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Popular Science, Technology Review, Nautilus, Wired, Air & Space, Omni, Sky & Telescope, The Atlantic, National Wildlife, Audubon, Archaeology, Environment, and other magazines. He is the coauthor of The Shape of Inner Space (Basic Books 2010), A History in Sum (Harvard University Press, 2013), From the Great Wall to the Great Collider (International Press, 2015), The Shape of a Life (Yale University of Press), and The Gravity of Math (Basic Books 2024). He has written or contributed to more than two dozen other books. He has has been a staff researcher at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science journalism fellow at MIT, and a consultant to the World Resources Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Harvard Mathematics and Physics Departments, and WGBH/NOVA. A graduate of Hampshire College, Nadis lives in Cambridge, Mass.