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What happens to a donated tumor?
CR magazine Summer 2009


Big Picture: Dark Matter
Discover magazine July-August special issue


The taste of bubbles
Science News for Kids Oct. 21, 2009


The Star Diver
Discover magazine April 2009


The Most Popular Stars
Science News for Kids March 31, 2009


Whatever Happened To... Acid Rain?
Discover online March 13, 2009


The Solar System's biggest junkyard
Science News for kids Sept. 24, 2008


IceCube Science
Science News for kids June 25, 2008


Short news articles for
Science News for Kids.

Links available here.


Everybody has a Coliseum story
New Haven Review Fall 2008


Satellite Crashes Will Remain Rare,
but Space Debris is a Growing Problem

Popular Mechanics Feb. 2009


Cancer and Suicide Risk
CR magazine Winter 2009


Stories from Discover magazine's
annual Year in Science issue,
January 2009:


#7: Invisibility becomes more
than just a fantasy


#21: Plants Inspire a Better Way
to Store Solar Energy


#23: Black Holes Birth Baby Stars

#26: Sun Catcher Promises Cheaper
Solar Power


#43: Next-Level Quantum Spookiness

#51: Physicists Build the World’s
Smallest Transistor


#65: Long-Prophesied Circuit Element
Could Revolutionize Computing


#69: Physicists Create a Perfect
Place to Store Electricity


#70: A Single Electron Is Caught
on Film


#74: Viruses are put to work
building superbatteries


#78: The Galaxy that Spins
a Giant Magnetic Web


Graphene's superstrength
Science News for Kids December 17, 2008


Speedy Stars
Science News for Kids November 18, 2008


Music of the future
Science News for Kids October 15, 2008


On the Job Treatment
CR magazine Fall 2008


Whatever Happened to... Mind Control?
Discover magazine June 2008
not online yet

Genetic Link to Lung Cancer
CR magazine Summer 2008


Smoothing Out Nano Edges
Technology Review May 13


Battleground Galactica
Discover magazine June 2008


Whatever Happened to... New Math?
Discover magazine June 2008
not online yet

"You Just Readed
This Headline Correctly"

Discover magazine April 2008


Knee Power
Technology Review February 8, 2008


Planetpalooza
Discover magazine January 2008


Scientist of the Year
Profile of David Charbonneau

Discover magazine December 2007


Staring into the Void
Discover magazine November 2007


Fat Times for Planet Hunters
Discover magazine November 2007


Beethoven: Dead from Lead?
Science NOW Daily News August 28, 2007


Pluto gets Demoted. Again.
Discover magazine September 2007


Map: Storm Tracks
Discover magazine September 2007
(not online, print only)

Whatever Happened to... Esperanto?
Discover magazine September 2007


Buying Biosphere 2
Discover magazine September 2007
(not online, print only)

The 62-mile-high club
Discover magazine August 2007


Map: Alien Weather Report
Discover magazine August 2007


Location, Location, Location:
Who Owns the Moon?

Discover magazine July 2007


Einstein Was Right
Oops there goes gravity

Discover magazine July 2007


High school Hookups
Discover magazine July 2007


The Nobel Thieves
Discover magazine June 2007


Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere
Discover magazine May 2007


Sunset over Mars:
Requiem for a satellite

Discover magazine March 2007


The Hunt for Other Earths
Discover magazine April 2007


Whatever Happened to... Chaos Theory?
Discover magazine April 2007


Million Dollar Math
Discover magazine December 2006


The Proof is in the Blogging
Seedmagazine.com October 27, 2006


The Hole Story
Discover magazine February 2007


Of Doilies and Disease
Discover magazine February 2007


Bye-bye, Sonic Hedgehog
Discover magazine February 2007


Cochlea's Spiral Plays
Surprising Role in Hearing

Discover magazine January 2007


Probe Snaps Baby Picture
of the Cosmos

Discover magazine January 2007


Move Over, T. Rex
Discover magazine December 2006

Not Lost in Translation
Technology Review November 16, 2006


Using Bees to Detect Bombs
Technology Review December 7, 2007


Science in the Crosshairs
Discover magazine November 2006


Earth's Big Balancing Act
Discover magazine December 2006


What is the Poincaré Conjecture?
Seedmagazine.com August 25, 2006


What does the Internet look like?
Discover magazine October 2006


Sun Kings
Discover magazine June 2007


Radioactive Boy Scout
Discover magazine March 2007


Book reviews
Discover magazine March 2007


The First Computer
Discover magazine October 2006