Stephen Battersby (science journalist)

{{Short description|British science journalist}}

Stephen Battersby is a freelance science journalist who has been a News & Views editor at Nature and the features editor at New Scientist, where he has also served as an editorial consultant.{{Cite web |title=Who's who at New Scientist |url=https://www.newscientist.com/in307-whos-who-at-new-scientist/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126045805/https://www.newscientist.com/in307-whos-who-at-new-scientist/ |archive-date=2021-01-26 |access-date=2019-05-31 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}} He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Oxford University, and his PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London.{{Cite web|url=https://dps.aas.org/prizes/2015|title=2015 Prize Recipients {{!}} Division for Planetary Sciences|website=dps.aas.org|access-date=2019-05-31}}

In 2015, Battersby received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for an article on methane tides on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.