[4] Wolchover began her career freelancing for Make magazine and Seed, then worked as an intern for Science Illustrated.
[5] She then became a staff writer for Life's Little Mysteries where she answered science questions, debunked paranormal claims and fake videos and wrote about new research.
[5] Wolchover has written for publications including Quanta Magazine, Nature, The New Yorker, Popular Science, and LiveScience.
[8][9] Awards judges have recognized Wolchover's ability to communicate complex ideas such as Bayesian statistics to a general audience.
[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][excessive citations] Wolchover obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from Tufts University, during which time she co-authored several publications in non-linear optics.