Portfolio
My work has appeared in print and/or on the websites of National Geographic, Quanta Magazine, Science News, Nautilus, Discover, Popular Science, Smithsonian, Astronomy, New Scientist, Physics World, Mercury, and Symmetry Magazine. Below is a selected sample of my work.
Cosmology
The Webb Telescope Further Deepens the Biggest Controversy in Cosmology (Quanta Magazine; August 13, 2024)
Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts (Quanta Magazine; March 4, 2024)
Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe (Quanta Magazine; January 19, 2024)
Whisper from the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate (Quanta Magazine; March 29, 2018)
Finding the Universe's Missing Matter (Discover; September 2017)
How Planck has redefined the universe (Astronomy; October 2013)
Science Meets Art
How notes from the mothers of astronomy were reclaimed in art (National Geographic; August 2022 print issue)
Putting origami to use in space (Discover; August 27, 2016)
Fold a Paper Robot (Popular Science; November 2015 print issue)
Astrophysics
The Echoes of Light (Nautilus; December 29, 2023)
The brightest blast ever seen in space continues to surprise scientists (National Geographic; August 16, 2023)
Extreme 'ghostly' particles detected in our galaxy for the first time (National Geographic; June 29, 2023)
We finally have an image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (Science News; May 12, 2022)
The universe’s background starlight is twice as bright as expected (Science News; March 22, 2022)
The Spacecraft that Changed How I See the Universe (National Geographic; June 2021 print issue)
How the Arecibo Observatory created a scientific legacy for Puerto Rico (Physics World; January 2021 print issue)
A bit of MAGIC (Symmetry Magazine; August 25, 2020)
Why are Black Holes so Bright? (Quanta Magazine; April 22, 2020)
Dear Fermi: What it means to see the universe’s extremes (National Geographic; June 11, 2019)
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies (Quanta Magazine; October 24, 2018)
Hidden Supercluster Could Solve Milky Way Mystery (Quanta Magazine; November 21, 2017)
Supernovas Revealed in 3 Dimensions (Discover; July/August 2016)
After a Century of Searching, We Finally Detected Gravitational Waves (Smithsonian; February 11, 2016)
How we know black holes exist (Astronomy; April 2012)
Planetary Science
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? (Science News; February 25, 2023, print issue; online February 17, 2023)
Artemis I finally launched. Here’s what it means for human spaceflight (Science News; December 3, 2022, print issue; online November 16, 2022)
Mars has two speeds of sound (Science News; April 11, 2022)
The Moon, Our Lunar Companion (National Geographic special print issue and online; July 5, 2019)
Saturn's Moon Hides Liquid Water (Discover; January/February 2015: The Year in Science, 100 Top Stories of 2014)
Science Policy
Protests halt telescope construction on Hawaiian mountain (Physics World; May 2015 print issue; online April 20, 2015)
Space Biology
What toll does spaceflight take on astronauts? Here’s what we know. (National Geographic; July 9, 2024)
All of the bases of DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites (Science News; April 26, 2022)
Geophysics
The lost continent of Zealandia has been mapped for the first time (National Geographic; January 24, 2024)