TOM CHIVERS is a science writer and author. He was awarded the Royal Statistical Society ‘statistical excellence in journalism’ award in 2018, and was highly commended for the same prize in 2017; he has also been shortlisted for the Association of British Science Writers award and a British Journalism Award in science writing, and won the American Psychological Society media award, all in 2017. His first book, THE RATIONALIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, was declared one of The Times’ science books of 2019.