Graham Lawton

Graham Lawton is a staff writer at New Scientist with a focus on life sciences, biomedicine, earth sciences and the environment. He has a first-class honours degree in biochemistry and an MSc with distinction in science communication, both from Imperial College London. He has worked at New Scientist since 2000 in various roles including features editor, opinion editor, deputy editor, executive editor and acting editor. He now writes features, opinion articles and a monthly column No Planet B.

His writing has also been published in The Times, The Sunday Times, The i and The Sun and he has made multiple appearances on national radio and television. In 2023, he won writer of the year at the Professional Publishers Association awards. In 2019 he was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards science writer of the year, and been shortlisted numerous times by the Association of British Science Writers awards. He is the author of three books: The Origin of (Almost) Everything, This Book Could Save Your Life and Mustn’t Grumble: The surprising science of everyday ailments and why we’re always a bit ill.