Jacklin Kwan

Features Editor at New Scientist

london, england, united kingdom

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I am a science journalist with a focus on long-form feature writing and on the physical sciences. I have an academic background in physics and science communication, and have 5+ years of news-writing experience. I have experience working in newsrooms, and for the past two years, I've worked as a communications officer at Imperial College London's Faculty of Natural Science, leading on digital communication strategy and multimedia content creation. For the past two years, I have also mentored news interns at Imperial. I have written, produced and edited news articles, features, and video at my role in Imperial, as well as a freelance reporter for the likes of New Scientist, WIRED, Science and more. In 2024, I won the Sarah Hughes Trust Prize for my front-cover British Medical Journal investigation into private biobanking.

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Benjamin Labatut has written an utterly haunting novella about science

There are two ends of science. At one end is a great lumbering machine where equations and numbers are fed in, and bullets, nerve gas and nuclear warheads come out. At the other end is an undeniable truth about the universe and our place within it. Benjam... See more

newscientist.com•Jacklin Kwan•Sep 30, 2026

Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment

Children will deploy all sorts of tactics to avoid going to bed. Catherine Heymans’s youngest had a canny one: to distract his mum, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he asked her meaty questions about science. One night a few years ago, he... See more

newscientist.com•Jacklin Kwan•Sep 23, 2026

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