Below are a few of the things I’ve written, by publication alphabetically, and then in a rough chronological order.
APS News
Preprints Make Inroads Outside of Physics
John Robert Schrieffer 1931-2019
African Light Source Garners Critical Political Backing
IEEE Spectrum
Cornell’s Prototype Low-Energy Particle Accelerator Completes Key Test
Li-Fi Scrubs Into the Operating Room
Hakai
The Unexpected Upsides of the Hole in Fire Island
High Country News
A vigil about the true cost of family separation
Literary Review of Canada
Nature News
Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II
Nautilus
Why Cassini Is Ending Its Life with a Kamikaze Plunge
Astronomy Has Just Gained a New Sense
This Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting
PBS Spacetime (scripts)
Physics
Focus: Microscopic Theory for Peeling Tape
Protocol
Quantum computers won’t break encryption just yet
Scientific American
Japan Delays Decision for Hosting Next Big Particle Collider
“Qutrit” Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation
Smartphone Data Show Voters in Black Neighborhoods Wait Longer
Quantum Computer Made from Photons Achieves a New Record
MICE Cold: Collaboration Demonstrates Muon Ionization Cooling
Japan Inches Forward with Plans to Host Next Big Particle Collider
Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test
Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers
Science Magazine
Physicists create a quantum refrigerator that cools with an absence of light
Science News & Science News for Students
This bionic mushroom makes electricity
Sound ways — literally — to move and filter things
Silver nanoparticles help fight brain-eating amoebas
Meet the speedsters of the plant world
Heat waves are roasting reefs, but some corals may be resilient
Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID’d eye protein
To hear the beat, your brain may think about moving to it
The wiring for walking developed long before fish left the sea
Baby macaques are the first primates to be cloned like Dolly the Sheep
Massive dust storms are robbing Mars of its water
Pollution is endangering the future of astronomy
symmetry/Fermilab
Nobel awarded for theoretical cosmology, exoplanet discovery
The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration
Conjuring ghost trains for safety
Researchers face engineering puzzle
A brief etymology of particle physics
Mobile Neutrino Lab makes its debut
QuarkNet brings particle physics to African schoolrooms
Awards will fund quantum sensor technology for dark matter searches
Looking back: communication at Fermilab over 50 years
Sleuths use bubbles to look for WIMPs
Undark
In YouTube ‘Edutainment,’ Minimal Control for Scientific Accuracy
Diversifying Peer Review by Adding Junior Scientists
