Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR. He is currently working on the series “Joe’s Big Idea” in which he explores the minds and motivations of scientists and inventors. He is also the founder of NPR Scicommers, a science communications collective. He previously worked as a health producer for the CBS affiliate in Washington, D.C., a Washington news editor for “Nature” and a senior correspondent for Science Magazine. For six months, he served as a science writer in residence at the Huntington Library. Palca is the co-author of “Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us.” He has won numerous awards, including the National Academies Communications Award, the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing. In 2019, Palca was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in journalism.