A Desire to Help
Children can be many things. Joyful, energetic and exasperating. Curious, playful and sad. For P.J. Lukac, who is finishing his…
Writings
Looking for the roots of risk
On a bright day in the first week of August, Julianna Deardorff escorted five Chilean scientists from Berkeley to The Farm,…
Retractions: Righting the wrongs of science
If the results from an experiment look too good to be true, look again. Those are wise words…
Edging into the spotlight
"He had been trying to get his colleague Charles Kane to listen to him, but Kane wasn’t having any of it."…
Perovskite’s solar promise
In the last few years, the sun-to-power efficiency of perovskites has surged at an unprecedented rate. This material is easier…
Where will lighting strike?
Michael McQuilken will never forget the day lightning struck his younger brother. On August 20, 1975, he and…
How we got to Ceres
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently reached the orbit of Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt.…
Science in Hollywood
There’s so much snow in the movie Frozen that the cold white stuff might as well be the star of…
Science behind the scenes
Jerry Zucker! Natalie Portman! Arthur C. Clarke! My article about the Science & Entertainment Exchange is now up at…
Freeing the dinos within
Paleontologists have long faced a daunting obstacle to their research: Fossils are usually embedded in rock. To manually wrench the…