Tim Friend

Tim Friend was senior science writer for USA Today for 13 years.. During his thirteen-year career at the newspaper, he has covered a broad range of topics including archaeology, anthropology, physics, astronomy, nature, biotechnology and genetics. He has reported stories from Mount Everest, Antarctica, the Arctic Circle, the Amazon Rain Forest, the Middle East, Central America and from a one-person submersible on the ocean floor. In addition to his work with USA Today, he has written for numerous national magazines, including National Wildlife and Men's Health, and traveled to Afghanistan to report on the war there. He lives in Washington, D.C.