LUBA VIKHANSKI grad­u­at­ed from New York Uni­ver­si­ty before work­ing as a med­ical reporter in Man­hat­tan. She has been a free­lance con­trib­u­tor to The New York Times, Nature Med­i­cine, and The Jerusalem Post, and has writ­ten three books. Luba works as a sci­ence writer at the Weiz­mann Insti­tute of Sci­ence in Israel.