Category: Print publications
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You won’t be traveling by quantum teleportation
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article appeared in the spring print issue of Popular Science, but has also been published online. Quantum teleportation is real, but it’s not what you think A commute…
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The mathematics of knowledge networks in the brain
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is for SIAM News, the magazine for members of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The audience for this magazine, in other words, is professional…
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Squeezing light to detect more gravitational waves
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article appeared in the fall print issue of Popular Science, but I missed that this article had also been published online. Something called ‘squeezed light’ is about to…
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The secret to good digital animation is physics
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the magazine for members of the Society for…
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The knotty problem of DNA tangling
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the magazine for members of the Society for…
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The math behind leopard spots and chemical waves
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the glossy magazine for members of the Society…
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A black hole in a bathtub and other analog experiments
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Studying impossible systems with analogues How do you study a phenomenon that cannot be replicated on Earth? You study one that has nothing to do with it, but looks…
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Using math to understand why species don’t out-eat each other
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the glossy magazine for members of the Society…
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Space Wombats and Penguin Poop: Spying on Animals from Orbit
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Penguin Spotting, and Other Cool Satellite Tricks You’d be surprised what you can see from 300 miles up For Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine: At first glance the picture…
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Swarming in time, synchronizing in space
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] This article is a little different from the fare you’re used to getting from me: it’s for SIAM News, which is the glossy magazine for members of the Society…
Bowler Hat Science 