Regular contributor for Smithsonian Magazine, Gizmodo, Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine
Trilingual freelance journalist and daily correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine. Regular contributor to Gizmodo and Popular Science, specializing in ancient history, paleontology, anthropology, and astronomy.
Margherita Bassi covers a wide range of scientific discoveries, from ancient river origins and plant mathematics to medical breakthroughs and bizarre biological phenomena like "immortal" sea cucumber tissue.