Category: Writing for Other Sites
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Pluto: what’s in a name?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Pluto and Other Truly Epic Space Photos For The Daily Beast: To quote another great space adventurer: “Almost there!” The New Horizons probe, launched in 2006, will finally reach…
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We aren’t the dinosaurs: we’re the asteroid
[ 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 Sixth Extinction: We’re Not The Dinosaurs, We’re The Asteroid Yes, humans are probably to blame for the Earth’s sixth mass extinction event, which is wiping out species at…
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A multitude of faint and fluffy galaxies
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Scientists Discover Hundreds of Hidden Galaxies The new type of faint, fluffy galaxy might help resolve a cosmological conundrum For The Daily Beast: When we think of galaxies, we…
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Emmy Noether and her wonderful theorem
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Mathematician to know: Emmy Noether Noether’s theorem is a thread woven into the fabric of the science For Symmetry Magazine: We are able to understand the world because it…
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Why do some want to modify general relativity?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] And yes, I did refer to MOND as “a fungus in the basement of astronomy”. Do We Need to Rewrite General Relativity? For NOVA “The Nature of Reality”: General…
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Blogging about science for Forbes Magazine
[ 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 of this week, I will be blogging regularly for Forbes on planetary science, climate change, physics, and math. My first two posts are up; go check them out…
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No quantum foam seen in the cosmic beer glass
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Light from distant black holes doesn’t surf on waves of quantum foam Strongest check yet on quantum gravity effects in astronomy turns up nothing For Ars Technica: Quantum gravity…
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A white dwarf murder mystery
[ 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 killed the white dwarfs? (Aside from the giant explosion) Merger or extra matter? Two papers come to opposite conclusions For Ars Technica: Type Ia supernovae are explosions that…
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Looking to the heavens for neutrino masses
[ 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 to the heavens for neutrino masses From Symmetry Magazine: Neutrinos may be the lightest of all the particles with mass, weighing in at a tiny fraction of the…
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A possible ocean like ours on the moon Europa
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Europa’s Salty Sea My first contribution to the brand-new magazine Hakai: You can find bits and pieces of Earth seemingly scattered around the solar system. The surface of Mars…
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