Month: October 2015
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Meet the glueball, the missing Standard Model particle
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Glueballs are the missing frontier of the Standard Model There should be particles made entirely of gluons, but we don’t know how to find them For Ars Technica: The…
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Can we recognize life if we see it on other worlds?
Back in June, I traveled to a remote lake in British Columbia to visit a NASA research site. That trip resulted in a long article I wrote for Mosaic, which roamed over a wide range of topics: what a Canadian lake has to do with life on Mars, the difficulty of identifying life on other…
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A tribute to a great African-American planetary scientist
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Meet Claudia Alexander, NASA Badass Who Never Got Her Due In a field dominated by white men, Claudia Alexander was a pioneer For The Daily Beast: Comet 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko is…