Month: February 2018
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When testing gravity, no news is good news
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Looking for nothing to test gravity When they look for violations of Einstein’s general relativity, physicists deliberately plan experiments to find nothing at all. For Symmetry Magazine: In 1887,…
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Designing space telescopes the size of a dinner plate
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Could Future Telescopes Do Without the Mirror? Tomorrow’s Hubble might be the size of a dinner plate. For Air & Space Magazine: Today’s telescopes can see better and farther…
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Looking for the fifth dimension with wrinkles in spacetime
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Are We Closer to Finding a Fifth Dimension? For The Daily Beast: In Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time, the characters travel from one place to another…
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Finding mountains on distant alien worlds
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] How Astronomers Could Discover Mountains on Distant Planets Planets too far away to photograph could yield some clues to whether water—and maybe even life—could exist. For The Daily Beast:…
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The first known interstellar visitor to the Solar System
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Cosmic Driftwood What a floating rock can tell us about life in the rest of the universe Last October, we had the first known interstellar visitor to the Solar…