Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations
I'm proud to announce that my book Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations, will be published in April 2019 by Sterling. A…
Category: Recent Work
Quantum games aim to demystify heady science
The antagonists in video games tend to be monsters or zombies, but Quantum Moves pits players against the fundamental laws…
En route to Mars, astronauts may face big health risks
Frank Borman was probably the first person to barf in space. Borman was part of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, which…
Searching Blood for Cancer Clues
ONCE A MONTH, 40-year-old Kristen Kilmer drives nearly 400 miles from her home in Spearfish, South Dakota, to the Avera Cancer…
Targeting brain cancer
Seven years after her brain cancer diagnosis, Liz Salmi decided she wanted to know more about the makeup of the…
Fighting Fire with Fire
Robert Kremens fights fire with fire. No, really – that’s his job. Kremens sets fires in a host of locations…
Vaccines: Looking Within for Cancer Treament
It’s been 10 years since Tom Liebert received an experimental cancer vaccine to treat his multiple myeloma, and he still…
Predicting the whirlwind
In more than 20 years as a meteorologist, Joshua Wurman had seen – and chased – more than 150…
How Bose–Einstein condensates keep revealing weird physics
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the first of which was shown experimentally 22 years ago, isn’t your garden variety state of…
Seeking a Second Opinion
In November 2012, when she was 52 years old, Shannon Semple was diagnosed with a disease she didn’t have. She…