Nature News published my story about a new underwater robot
Underwater robot can follow marine organisms over record distances: Nature News. Nature News published my story today! Follow the link above to read it. I’m obviously excited to publish a story in Nature, it’s been a dream of mine. And the fact that it was my first pitch to them makes it feel even more […]
Santa Cruz SciCom and Clips from my internship
It’s been an intense few weeks in Santa Cruz, but I’ve been enjoying it so far. It helps that it’s so pretty, and the weather’s been great: here are some pictures of the view of downtown Santa Cruz and the Pacific Ocean during my walk back from class. Classes have been fun, though there’s always […]
Virology institute working on curing cancer
More recent freelance work for the Institute of Human Virology (IHV). Interestingly, this time both articles were on cancer! What do viruses have to do with cancer? Well, as Dr. Robert Gallo, Head of the IHV mentioned, it wasn’t long ago that no one thought cancers had infectious causes, but now 20-25% of all cancers […]
Out of Elements
I worked on one of my favorite articles and infographics for the June 2010 issue of Popular Science, on the elements that we couldn’t do without. It brought back memories of high-school and college chemistry, and the infographic itself involves a periodic table. It was interesting to even think of the fact that we do […]
4 articles in the March issue of Popular Science
No wonder I’ve been busy…the March issue of Popular Science just came out, and it was a busy one for me, I had 4 articles in there. There was a Megapixels, which I’ve done before, but all the other sections were totally new for me – 2 Headlines stories and 1 How it Works. Was […]
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science. Another Megapixels writeup from the February issue of Popular Science. This one was interesting because it was about the Delhi Metro; given that I went to high school in Delhi and visit their regularly, I’ve actually seen the Metro being constructed, […]
A couple of new articles
Did some more freelance work for Discovery, the newsletter of the Institute for Human Virology. I always enjoy talking to their scientists about their research, and this time I wrote about science that involved some broader issues outside of science and medicine as well. The two articles in the Fall newsletter are about the testing […]
Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science
Photographed: Ratchet-Like Cell Mechanism that Pulls Wounds Shut | Popular Science. A short piece I did for Popular Science magazine’s Megapixels section, which features a two-page spread photograph. The web version is available at PopSci.com at the link above. They’re usually pretty stunning, and I like this fluorescent image of dorsal closure in a fruit […]
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010 | Popular Science. This is a section that appears every January in Popular Science, and tries to predict the top news stories of the upcoming year. I wrote two sections in it, ‘Life After Death?’ and ‘Births and Deaths’ (on pages 2 and 5 respectively), but I just posted […]
FYI: Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? | Popular Science
FYI: Can Microwave Technology be Used to Make Food Cold? | Popular Science. Another FYI, this one from the January issue of Popular Science, though the link above gets you to the web version. They really do answer quite a variety of questions in the FYI section, it’s always kind of fun contacting an expert […]