Below are the article I have written for Scientific American magazine and for ScientificAmerican.com.
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Scientific American Feature Articles:
Questions for the Next Million Years Gather the Wind The Compass Within Scientific American – Other Articles: Wild Pollinators Are Ailing, Too Colliding Philosophies: Smarter Algorithms Help Find New Particles The Dirty Side of Phosphorus Hypersphere Exotica: Kervaire Invariant Problem Has a Solution! New Microscope Reveals the Shape of Atoms Warp-Speed Algebra Invasion of the Drones: Unmanned Aircraft Take Off in Polar Exploration Supersonic Bathtub Physics Problem Solved, LOL Look Ma, No Junctions! Novel Transistor Design Reemerges After 85 Years Quantum Light Switch: Single Atom Acts as a Transistor for Photons Just How Small Is the Proton? Hawking versus God: What Did the Physicist Really Say about the Deity? Life Unseen: Images of Magnificent Microscopic Landscapes [Slide Show]Scientific American presents this year’s winning micro-imaging entries from the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest Not Your Parents’ Carbon: A New Type of Crystalline Graphite The Smallest Mind Cracking a Century-Old Enigma A Tale of Math Treasure Why Neutrinos Might Wimp Out Goldbach’s Prime Numbers Is Supersymmetry Dead? |
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Special Issue of September 2009: Origins
The feature comprised more than 50 articles each describing the origin of something. I wrote eight of the articles: Batteries, Scotch Tape, Carbon, The Placenta, The Eye, Photosynthesis, Chocolate, and Economic Thinking. |
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ScientificAmerican.com CSI Alaska: Air crash victim identified after 60 years Could nanotechnology save ancient books from crumbling? From the 2009 meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco:
“Quantum Microphone” Puts Visible Object in Two Places at OnceFrom the 2010 March Meeting of the American Physical Society. Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum Encryption? Lightning x-rays imaged for the first time [Video] Titan Spews: Discovery of Cold Volcanoes on Saturnian Moon May Solve Methane Mystery Dimming city lights may help reduce smog Affordable Orbital: Tiny Satellites Make for Democratic Access to Space [Slideshow] Dimension-Cruncher: Exotic Spheres Earn Mathematician John Milnor an Abel Prize Nuke Reboot: Physicists List Lessons to Be Learned from Japan’s Nuclear Crisis Information-age math finds code in ancient Scottish symbols The Geoid: Why a map of Earth’s gravity yields a potato-shaped planet Absolute Hero: Heike Onnes’s Discovery of Superconductors Turns 100 [Slideshow] Let’s make a deal: Revisiting the Monty Hall problem Tantalizing Hints of Elusive Higgs Particle Announced Has the Higgs Been Discovered? Physicists Gear Up for Watershed Announcement |
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Interactive Features
How Maxwell’s Demon Cools a Gas to Microkelvin Temperatures Faster, Smaller, Better: Does Physics Put an Upper Limit on Brain Efficiency? New York City’s 20 Years of Declining Crime The Elements Revealed: An Interactive Periodic Table |