A Modest Proposal: Google Glass Meets Facebook
In the series "A Modest Proposal," my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.
Assignment: Impossible
Exploring the area between the unknown and the impossible.
A Menagerie of Curiosities: Eyes on their tails
In A Menagerie of Curiosities, I explore the fascinating results of experiments that explore how life develops. Science to me is about exploring what's unknown and what's impossible.
From The Writer's Desk: Secret Electronic Wars?
In the series, "From The Writer's Desk," I'll describe what I do for a living as a writer and ideas I have for advancing my craft. Today I have a story out on a secret war that might have taken place for years in the embedded computers found within the devices that make up the backbone of the infrastructures of our nations and corporations...
A Modest Proposal: Printed Cyborgs
In the series "A Modest Proposal," my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.
A Modest Proposal: Star-Trek-like Comm Badges for Siri, redux
In the series "A Modest Proposal," my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.
The Science of Swords: The Sound of Approaching Doom
The sword is silent as it leaves its scabbard in an expert draw. The only sound it makes is when it whistles as it cuts through the air. It might be the last sound you ever hear.When I'm not writing about science, one of my pastimes is swordsmanship...
"Worth Pitching?": Mysteries of Rain and Ice
In the series, "Worth Pitching?" I'll describe research I've come across in the course of science journalism and whether or not I pitched it to editors as a story.
Visions: Only If They Catch You
In the series "Visions," science fiction about the very latest research will be paired with analysis looking into the facts behind the fiction. The goal is to marry ripped-from-the-headlines science fiction with analysis into the possibilities hinted at by new discoveries...
A Modest Proposal: 3-D Printing of Fossils Still Trapped in Matrix
In the series "A Modest Proposal," my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real.
From The Writer's Desk: Untold Stories in Science Writing
In the series, "From The Writer's Desk," I'll describe what I do for a living as a writer and ideas I have for advancing my craft. By devising inflation theory, considered by many in physics to be the best explanation of why the universe currently looks the way it does, cosmologist Alan Guth at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology probably ranks among one of the most important physicists alive today...
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Adventures in the good science of rock-breaking.
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Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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