Richard Stone is Asia News Editor of Science, the international weekly magazine. Stone has reported on non-proliferation and environmental issues from some of the most forbidding corners of the world, including North Korea and Iran. He spent the 2004-2005 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in Kazakhstan, conducting an in-depth study of the legacy of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, and now lives in Beijing. In addition to his work for Science, Stone has written for National Geographic, Discover, and Smithsonian magazines and is the author of “Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant” (Perseus, 2001).