UNSW Journalist in Residence

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.

Episode 17 of BookLab is now out — featuring books by Antonio Damasio, David Schwartz, and Till Roenneberg:

Theoretical physics has made little progress in the last 30 years, some scientists argue — at least, compared to the great breakthroughs of the 20th century. My report for NBCnews.com.

As I argue in a new blog post, the Star Wars universe owes more to Newton than to Einstein.

Everyone has heard of relativity, but how many of us can explain it to a friend? Here's a quick beginner's guide that I wrote for NBCnews.com.

Following the death of Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time is once again on the bestseller lists. But what if you want more? Amanda Gefter (my co-host for the …

In a special episode of BookLab, Amanda Gefter and I look back at Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, 30 years after its publication. (Available on iTunes or on …