CERN has unveiled plans for a huge new particle accelerator that would continue the work begun at the Large Hadron Collider. Proponents say it's the only way to understand the …
Episode 19 of BookLab is now out! Few things are as fundamental to the human experience as memory. But what exactly is memory? How do memories actually work, in our brains? And why did …
This spring, the kilogram will officially be re-defined. I met with kilogram-keepers in three different countries, and spoke with experts about this "weighty" change. My feature for Undark.
Voyager 2 still 'phones home,' from across almost 19 billion kilometres of space — and when it does, Australia takes the call. My story for Wired UK, following my recent …
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 …
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 …
