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Half a century ago, humanity tooks its first tenetative steps beyond home. My story on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 8 moon mission.

Quantum mechanics has been an extraordinarily successful theory — and yet, physicists continue to debate what it's actually telling us about our universe.  I wrote about a recent conference held …

In “Adventures in Memory,” two Norwegian authors explore the rich science of remembering and forgetting. Read my review in Undark magzine.

I'm delighted that two of my feature stories for Quanta magazine are included in this new book from MIT Press, "Alice and Bob meet the Wall of Fire." One of …

At Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory some fifty kilometres west of downtown Chicago, they take neutrinos very seriously. Neutrinos are tiny, ubiquitous particles that pass effortlessly through solid matter and …

Episode 18 of BookLab is now up! Our featured book is "Lost in Math," by Sabine Hossenfelder. Physics made enormous progress in the 20th century – but Sabine Hossenfelder says …

I'm delighted to be taking up a three-week position as Journalist in Residence at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, beginning on …

We hear music, and our bodies respond — but how, and why? I spoke with musician and psychologist Daniel Levitin, for Knowable magazine.

Enrico Fermi lived and breathed physics. My review of David Schwartz's new biography of Fermi, "The Last Man Who Knew Everything," for Undark magzine.

A leading physicist ponders the enigmatic fourth dimension: I spoke with Carlo Rovelli about the nature of time, for NBCnews.com.