Volcanic blowout
Ever wondered what a volcano really does in its first explosive moments? Well, it turns out you can point a high-speed camera at the mountain and find out.
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Making waves
February 22, 2012
Nearly a year after the Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, scientists are trying to learn from the disaster and reduce future death tolls.
Life in the vasty deep
January 31, 2012
Where do you think most organisms on Earth live? On land? In the oceans? Nope. By some estimates, as much as one-third of all the mass of creatures on Earth could be living … beneath the seafloor.
In a squeeze
January 11, 2012
During the 17th century, the adventurous folks at Florence’s leading science academy wanted to see if they could compress liquids. They filled a metal sphere with water and banged on it with a hammer. Yep, it leaked.
Nature Geoscience column
December 27, 2011
I’m the new “In the press” columnist for Nature Geoscience, the monthly journal of All Things Earth Science.
Posted in: geology, journalism
Space eats
November 8, 2011
If you’re an astronaut traveling to Mars, what are you going to eat on the way? You can’t exactly order out for pizza.
Posted in: space
Flash of insight
November 8, 2011
One of the great things about being a science journalist is reporting from the field. In late August I traveled to Socorro, N.M., to visit the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at New Mexico Tech.
Posted in: atmosphere, physics
Panda poop chemistry
October 6, 2011
Two giant pandas in the Memphis Zoo, fecal sampling, and the possibility of next-generation biofuels. Honestly … what else do you need in a story?
Flying on sunshine
August 31, 2011
If you work long enough as a reporter, stories you once thought would never come together turn into reality. That’s what happened to me and solar sails.
The iceman eateth
August 22, 2011
Remember Ötzi, that frozen guy found in a glacier in the Alps 20 years ago? He’d been dead for 5,300 years. Researchers have only now found his stomach, and it turns out to be full of goat.
Posted in: archaeology
May 9, 2012
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