Category: Writing for Other Sites
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Confused about the Big Bang? Start here
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The Big Bang is the central concept in cosmology — the study of the whole universe — but it can be confusing to a lot of people. In fact,…
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Information ain’t no good if you can’t get to it
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] The most important website in particle physics The first website to be hosted in the US has grown to be an invaluable hub for open science For Symmetry Magazine:…
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The lowdown on the highest energy light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Incredible hulking facts about gamma rays From lightning to the death of electrons, the highest-energy form of light is everywhere For Symmetry Magazine: Gamma rays are the most energetic…
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Finding all the matter in the cosmos — even the invisible stuff
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] “Weak Lensing” Helps Astronomers Map the Mass of the Universe By making galaxies a little bit brighter, it points the way to elusive galaxies and lets us detect that…
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The search for a “theory of everything”
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] All four one and one for all A theory of everything would unite the four forces of nature, but is such a thing possible? For Symmetry Magazine: Over the…
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Blowing up high-mass stars with low-mass neutrinos
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Low-mass particles that make high-mass stars go boom Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova. For Symmetry Magazine: When some stars much more massive than…
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Everything is a particle, but what does that mean?!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] What is a “particle”? Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean? For Symmetry Magazine: “Is he a dot or is he a…
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Are neutrinos their own worst enemies?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] EXO-200 resumes its underground quest The upgraded experiment aims to discover if neutrinos are their own antiparticles For Symmetry Magazine: Science is often about serendipity: being open to new…
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The GUTsy effort to unify the quantum forces
[ 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 GUT feeling about physics Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory For Symmetry Magazine: The 1970s were a heady time in…
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Some light reading about light
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] As I mentioned before, I’m branching out a bit and writing some listicles for Symmetry Magazine this year. The first covered gravity, and the second covers… light! Eight things…
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