Recent Work
Patents for software?
AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up against the question, is mathematics invented or [Read More]
Cutting Cancer’s Engine
Not every hypothesis in cancer research has the same staying power. Some emerge with fanfare and hype, only to fade [Read More]
Riding raindrops
To humans, falling rain usually amounts to little more than a minor inconvenience. After all, we are big and [Read More]
News
* The Science Writers' Handbook, a book to which I am proud to have contributed, is due out in April from Da Capo Press.
For Kids
Ahead of the wave
Bump a glass and any water inside might slop over the side. Splash in the bathtub and waves slosh. Toss a rock into a pond and ripples move outward in expanding rings. [Read More]
Math stories
Foraging flights
First, he tracked basking sharks—filterfeeding leviathans that look like supersized great whites—in the coastal waters near Great Britain, and then Atlantic [Read More]