Kai Kupferschmidt is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine based in Berlin, Germany. He has long covered infectious diseases and global health, but he also writes about research into psychedelics and the science of misinformation. His writing has appeared in many German outlets, and he has won several awards, including the Journalism Award of the German Aids Foundation and an NASW Science in Society Journalism Award. He is co-creator and co-host of the podcast “Pandemia.” Kai has a degree in molecular biomedicine and has written a book on the science surrounding the color blue: Blue. In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color. He is on Bluesky at @kakape.bsky.social.