Penny Sarchet

Penny Sarchet is New Scientis t's Managing Editor and hosts New Scientist's The World, The Universe and Us podcast with Rowan Hooper. She leads New Scientist 's written journalism, overseeing news, features, culture and digital storytelling. She holds a degree in biological sciences and a doctorate in plant genetics and development, both from the University of Oxford. She was previously a reporter at Research Fortnight and Research Europe , and her work has also been published by The Guardian, The Observer, BBC Science Focus, The Washington Post, Slate, The Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education . She joined New Scientist in 2014 as a reporter specialising in the life and biomedical sciences, with particular interests in evolution, genetics, plant science and ornithology. As News Editor, she ran New Scientist ’s international news team from 2018 to 2022. She has written about everything from the origins of life and the causes of allergies to the science of gardening and the evolut