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Chelsea Whyte

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Chelsea Whyte is the US editor of New Scientist. She has worked as a staff journalist at New Scientist since 2017, in previous roles as senior news editor, a US reporter and as the physics and space news editor. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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