Month: March 2015
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The dinosaur-killing dark matter of DOOM!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A few weeks ago, several news outlets ran stories based on a press release, in which a researcher claimed that dense clumps of dark matter could be responsible for…
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Slowing light to measure the creep of glaciers
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] My most recent article is an interesting combination of fundamental quantum physics research — the slowing of light inside specially-designed materials — with the study of the impacts of…
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A space robot arrives at a new world: Dawn at Ceres
Sunday is my birthday, and NASA kindly decided to give me a whole asteroid. I got to write about it for The Daily Beast. NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Made It to Dwarf Planet Ceres From The Daily Beast: When I was young, I obsessively read through a National Geographic science book called Our Universe, a good…