The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

Tegan Taylor is a multi-award-winning health and science reporter for the ABC. She hosts Radio National’s Life Matters and the hilarious health podcast What’s That Rash? Zoe Kean is an award-winning science writer with a focus on evolution, ecology and the environment. She has published in The Guardian, the ABC online, The Best Australian Science Writing 2022, 2023 and 2024, Cosmos magazine and with the BBC. Her book Why Are We Like This? An evolutionary search for answers to life’s big questions was released in 2024.