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Below are links to a few of my articles in pdf and html format, on subjects ranging from the drought in the southwest to a profile of a physicist who believes time does not exist. Waves of Destruction, one of my older stories, saved some lives in Sri Lanka when a tsunami hit the island in 2004.
Voyagers to the Stars, Scientific American, July 2022 (cover story)
The War Over Reality, Discover, May 2017 (paywalled)
Why Did Greenland's Vikings Vanish? Smithsonian March 2017
Mass Hysteria, Scientific American February 2017 (paywalled)
The Quantum Hack, Scientific American February 2016
How Melting Ice Changes One Country's Way of Life, National Geographic, October 2015
Beyond the God Particle, Discover, October 2015
A Brief History of Time Travel, Scientific American September 2015
Why Discovering Martians Could be Disappointing, Nautilus, June 2015
The Next Green Revolution, National Geographic, October 2014
Journeys to the Center of the Earth, Discover, July/August 2014
Rising Seas, National Geographic, Cover story, September 2013
Crazy Far, National Geographic, Cover story, January 2013
Sea of Wonders OnEarth Magazine, Summer 2012
The Calm Before the Wave, National Geographic , February 2012
(This article won the American Geophysical Union's 2013 Walter Sullivan Award for Science Feature Writing)
Waiting For the Higgs Scientific American, October 2011
The Secret Ingredients of Everything National Geographic, June 2011
Contact: The Day After Scientific American, January 2011
Viking Weather, National Geographic, Cover story, June 2010
The Data Trail, OnEarth, Summer 2010
Stephen Hawking profile, Discover, July/August 2009
Is Quantum Mechanics Tried, True, Wildly Successful, and Wrong? Science, June 19, 2009
Requiem For A River, OnEarth, Spring 2008
If An Electron Can Be in Two Places At Once, Why Can't You? Discover, June 2005
(This article won the 2007 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award)
Quantum Schmantum Discover, September 2001
Blueprint for Disaster? OnEarth, Summer 2005
Einstein's Grand Quest For A Unified Theory Discover, September 2004
A Thirsty Nation On Earth, Fall 2004
Warped Passages: The Secret Universe The New York Times, October 23, 2005
Nailing Down Gravity Discover, October 2003
Does the Universe Exist If We're Not Looking? Discover, June 2002
From Here to Eternity Discover, December, 2000
Rebuilding the Genius Machines Popular Science, May 2002
Waves of Destruction Discover, May 1994