Biography

Joshua Howgego has been on staff with New Scientist magazine for 10 years and is currently the Deputy Head of Features. He primarily covers physical sciences, space and cosmology. Josh has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Bristol, and an MSc in science communication from Imperial College London. In 2025, Josh’s first book The Meteorite Hunters was published and he received the Angela Croome Award for excellence in Earth, space and planetary science journalism.

Synopsis

Searching for stardust

Meteorites are usually rare treasures, but it turns out that micrometeorites – tiny specks of comic dust –fall on us all the time. Estimates suggest the Earth gets a truckload of the stuff every day. Even so, we always thought it would impossible to find these specks amid all the other Earthly dust until one unlikely hero – who happens to be Norway’s most famous jazz guitarist – proved it was possible. Josh Howgego, author of The Meteorite Hunters, will tell this incredible story of discovery and give us a guided tour of the surprisingly beautiful world of cosmic dust.