Adam Rogers

Adam Rogers is the Deputy Editor at WIRED, where he writes about science and other miscellaneous geekery. Rogers was a writer and on-air correspondent for the television show Wired Science, and his article “The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress” was the second-most read thing on the entire internet in 2015.

Rogers joined Wired in 2003; prior to that he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a reporter for Newsweek, covering science and technology in New York and the Washington DC bureau. His book Proof: The Science of Booze was a New York Times science bestseller, won the IACP Cookbook prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He has also written for the Atlantic, National Geographic, the New York Times, Slate, and Smithsonian.