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Hi, I'm Becky!
I'm  a science writer based in Ithaca, New York. 

My book FIRST CONTACT: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens was published by Workman Publishing on September 30, 2025. Buy a copy from the Hachette, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Powells.

I am a regular contributor to the journalist-founded site 404 Media, where I write the weekly science newsletter the Abstract.

​I also write my own newsletter, The BeX Files, which covers science, culture, and more.

I have bylines in The New York Times, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, 
Motherboard, Supercluster, and many more.  I have appeared as an expert guest on the Science Channel and hosted the Motherboard video series "Space Show."

Contact me at  [email protected]

Advanced 2.5 Million-Year-Old Tools May Rewrite Human History

11/10/2025

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After a decade-long excavation at a remote site in Kenya, scientists have unearthed evidence that our early human relatives continuously fashioned the same tools across thousands of generations, hinting that sophisticated tool use may have originated much earlier than previously known, according to a new study in Nature Communications.

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