Below are most of the articles I’ve written, in descending (mostly) chronological order. A journalist’s lazy CV, if you will.
Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results – Nature
Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists – Nature
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab – Nature
Inside the hunt for new physics at the world’s largest particle collider – MIT Technology Review
Leading US particle-physics lab faces uncertain future – Nature
Superconductivity debunker: this physicist exposed flaws in a blockbuster claim – Nature
Road Map for U.S. Particle Physics Wins Broad Approval – Scientific American
This Year’s Physics Nobel Awards Scientists for Slicing Reality into Attoseconds – Scientific American
Another retraction looms for embattled physicist behind blockbuster superconductivity claims – News from Science
Particle Physicists Dream of a Muon Collider – Scientific American
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery – Nature
Muon Mystery Deepens with Latest Measurements – Scientific American
Claimed superconductor LK-99 is an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short – Nature
Viral New Superconductivity Claims Leave Many Scientists Skeptical – Scientific American
‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction imminent for controversial physicist – Nature
Plagiarism allegations pursue physicist behind stunning superconductivity claims – News from Science
Jim Hartle, 1939-2023 – APS News
How Order Emerges in Bendy Beam Bunches – Physics Magazine
Gravitational-Wave Search Resumes after Three Years and Lots of Headaches – Scientific American
Five years of superconductivity in magic-angle graphene – Physics Today
This Summer, Particle Physicists Will Prioritize Projects for the Field’s Future – APS News
Allegations of Scientific Misconduct Mount as Physicist Makes His Biggest Claim Yet – Physics Magazine
April 1986: Bednorz and Müller Trigger Avalanche of High-Temperature Superconductivity Research – APS News
Experiment resolves long-standing iron-spectrum discrepancy – Physics Today
Meenakshi Narain, 1964-2023 – APS News
January 1976: From the “Oops-Leon” to the Upsilon Particle – APS News
November 1964: John Stewart Bell Quietly Rings in New Era of Quantum Theory – APS News
Cuprate superconductivity mechanism may be coming into focus – Physics Today
The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It – Scientific American
October 1956: Lee and Yang Crack the Mirror of Parity – APS News
Quantum Physics Titans Win Breakthrough Prize – Scientific American
September 2002: Schön Scandal Report is Released – APS News
Optical Vortex Sizes Up Nanoparticles – Physics Magazine
AI Language Models Are Struggling to “Get” Math – IEEE Spectrum
Machine Learning Shaking Up Hard Sciences, Too – IEEE Spectrum
Precision Nuclear Probes for New Physics – Physics Magazine
John Schiffer, 1930-2022 – APS News
What Is the Future of Quantum-Proof Encryption? – IEEE Spectrum
Physicists Struggle to Unite around Future Plans – Scientific American
July 1887: James Blyth Harnesses the Wind for Electricity – APS News
The Era of Higgs Physics – Physics Magazine
What Is Quantum Entanglement? – IEEE Spectrum
Large Hadron Collider Seeks New Particles after Major Upgrade – Scientific American
Elementary Particle’s Unexpected Heft Stuns Physicists – Scientific American
Tom Gaisser, 1940-2022 – APS News
Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution – Quanta
Michael Fisher 1931-2021 – APS News
Myriam Sarachik 1933-2021 – APS News
ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning – Scientific American
Laser Propagating through Air Sets Stability Record – Physics Magazine
How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced? – IEEE Spectrum
Neutron Lifetime Measurement Could Help Probes of the Standard Model – APS News
Self-Driving Microscopes to Navigate the Nanoscale – IEEE Spectrum
December 1945: Introduction of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 – APS News
October 1972: Publication of Discovery of Superfluid Helium-3 – APS News
Why the Physics Nobel Honored Climate Science and Complex Systems – Scientific American
Surface Effect Contributes to Small Structures’ Surprising Strength – Physics Magazine
Has Fusion Really Had Its “Wright Brothers” Moment? – IEEE Spectrum
Steven Weinberg 1933-2021 – APS News
Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist – PBS Spacetime (script)
Windbreaks May Improve Wind Farm Power – Physics Magazine
China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race, New Studies Suggest – Scientific American
Neil Ashcroft 1938-2021 – APS News
Scientists Supersize Quantum Effects with Entangled Drum Duet – Scientific American
Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting! – PBS Spacetime (script)
Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics – Scientific American
The second quantum revolution – symmetry
Are leptons all alike? – symmetry
Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World’s Largest Particle Collider – Scientific American
Can Future Colliders Break the Standard Model? – PBS Spacetime (script)
Building Black Holes in a Lab – PBS Spacetime (script)
Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things – Scientific American
Intel, Microsoft and Google’s quest to control complex quantum computers – Protocol
Jack Steinberger 1921-2020 – APS News
Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers – Scientific American
The many paths of muon math – symmetry
Solving Quantum Cryptography – PBS Spacetime (script)
Nobel Prize Work Took Black Holes from Fantasy to Fact – Scientific American
Possibility of Dark Bosons Entices Physicists – Scientific American
Compression of Tumors Causes Drug Resistance – Physics Magazine
Higgs Boson Gives Next-Generation Particle Its Heft – Scientific American
‘Schrödinger’s Web’ offers a sneak peek at the quantum internet – Science News
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement – PBS Spacetime (script)
How to Measure Superheavy Spectra – Physics Magazine
The Era of Anomalies – Physics Magazine
Quantum computers won’t break encryption just yet – Protocol
Physics Departments Ditch the GRE in Bid for Equity – APS News
Name Drop – Literary Review of Canada
Direct Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers – Scientific American
Pi in the Sky: General Relativity Passes the Ratio’s Test – Scientific American
In memoriam: Philip Anderson – Santa Fe Institute
In YouTube ‘Edutainment,’ Minimal Control for Scientific Accuracy – Undark
Japan Inches Forward with Plans to Host Next Big Particle Collider – Scientific American
MICE Cold: Collaboration Demonstrates Muon Ionization Cooling – Scientific American
Cornell’s Prototype Low-Energy Particle Accelerator Completes Key Test – IEEE Spectrum
Li-Fi Scrubs Into the Operating Room – IEEE Spectrum
Quantum Computer Made from Photons Achieves a New Record – Scientific American
Google AI beats top human players at strategy game StarCraft II – Nature
Smartphone Data Show Voters in Black Neighborhoods Wait Longer – Scientific American
Nobel awarded for theoretical cosmology, exoplanet discovery – symmetry
Preprints Make Inroads Outside of Physics – APS News
Gravity’s waterfall – symmetry
“Qutrit” Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation – Scientific American
A vigil about the true cost of family separation – High Country News
Diversifying Peer Review by Adding Junior Scientists – Undark
John Robert Schrieffer 1931-2019 – APS News
Murray Gell-Mann 1929-2019 – APS News
The potential of plasma wakefield acceleration – symmetry
African Light Source Garners Critical Political Backing – APS News
Physicists create a quantum refrigerator that cools with an absence of light – News from Science
Microscopic Theory for Peeling Tape – Physics Magazine
Sound ways — literally — to move and filter things – Science News for Students
Shoucheng Zhang 1963-2018 – APS News
This bionic mushroom makes electricity – Science News for Students
Silver nanoparticles help fight brain-eating amoebas – Science News for Students
The Unexpected Upsides of the Hole in Fire Island – Hakai
Leon Lederman 1922-2018 – APS News
Meet the speedsters of the plant world – Science News
Heat waves are roasting reefs, but some corals may be resilient – Science News
Birds get their internal compass from this newly ID’d eye protein – Science News
To hear the beat, your brain may think about moving to it – Science News
The wiring for walking developed long before fish left the sea – Science News
Baby macaques are the first primates to be cloned like Dolly the Sheep – Science News
Massive dust storms are robbing Mars of its water – Science News
Pollution is endangering the future of astronomy – Science News
Why Cassini Is Ending Its Life with a Kamikaze Plunge – Nautilus
Astronomy Has Just Gained a New Sense – Nautilus
Conjuring ghost trains for safety – symmetry
Researchers face engineering puzzle – symmetry
A new model for standards – symmetry
This Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting – Nautilus
Quirks of the arXiv – symmetry
A brief etymology of particle physics - symmetry
Mobile Neutrino Lab makes its debut – symmetry
QuarkNet brings particle physics to African schoolrooms – Fermilab News
Awards will fund quantum sensor technology for dark matter searches – Fermilab News
Looking back: communication at Fermilab over 50 years – Fermilab News
Sleuths use bubbles to look for WIMPs - symmetry
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