List of Published Work

Earth:

• "Rhythm and Clues." Earth, August, 1997, pp. 22-23. Eccentricity linked to climate?

• "At the going down of the nuclear sun," The Economist, September 16, 1995. Science & Technology, pp. 1-3. Contends that nuclear fusion reactors will be no more of a panacea for energy problems than nuclear fission ones have been.
• "Sensitive issue," The Economist, August 12, 1995. S&T, pp. 2-3. A new mammography technique will do more harm than good.
• "Judge Drude," The Economist, August 5, 1995, S&T, pp. 2-3. Advances in the search for metallic hydrogen.
• "Santayana's revenge." The Economist, July 22, 1995, Europe, p. 2. UNPROFOR in Bosnia has failed to learn the lessons taught by military history.
• "The end of the line." The Economist, July 15, 1995, S&T, pp. 1-2. Moore's Law -- the law which states that computer chip power doubles every two years -- is breaking down.
• "Mind Forming." The Economist, July 15, 1995, S&T, pp. 2-3. An advance in neurobiology explains how neurons link up.
• "Nerd's English." The Economist, July 15, 1995, Summer Books, p. 6. Exposes the horror of grammar checkers.
• "The road from Alamogordo." The Economist, June 24, 1995, S&T, pp. 1-2. Explores nuclear "simulation," contends that France was lying about the reasons for their nuclear tests -- and that they are developing a new warhead. [This theory was posed in The Guardian nearly three weeks later, and France admitted its warhead development soon after.]
• "Sucking at straws." The Economist, June 17, 1995, S&T, pp. 2-3. A new technique coats carbon nanotubes with vanadium oxides.
• "Rus in urbe." The Economist, June 10, 1995, S&T, p. 3. Coyotes migrate into urban areas.

• "The right stuff." New Scientist, 25 December 1999, p. 7. NASA expects at least one "loss of astronaut" events aboard the International Space Station.
• "They have a problem." New Scientist, 25 December 1999, pp. 14-15. After the loss of the Mars Polar Lander, NASA could be in for the fight of its life.
• "Millennium? What millennium?" New Scientist, 25 December 1999, pp. 18-25. Other dates to start a calendar from -- with numerous other writers.
• "Two down..." New Scientist, 18 December 1999, p. 5. Another battery fails aboard the ISS.
• "The nightmare continues." New Scientist, 11 December 1999, p. 4. From Pasadena -- the Mars Polar Lander fails.
• "Moving mountain." New Scientist, 11 December 1999, p. 23. A volcano appears to move on Io.
• "Big new worlds." New Scientist, 4 December 1999, p. 5. Six new extrasolar planets.
• "Acoustic eye that works in the murk." New Scientist, 4 December 1999, p. 8. An underwater acoustic camera.
• "Scarred by space." New Scientist, 4 December 1999, pp. 10-11. Analysis of Mir's solar panels.
• "Relativity tester." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p. 5. LIGO's ribbon-cutting.
• "More Hubble trouble." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p.5. Third gyro fails.
• "Mystery shrouds origin of distant planet." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p 6. Galileo's measurements of the Jovian atmosphere are surprising.
• "The nick of time." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p. 15. The Mars Climate Orbiter investigation finds a flaw in the Mars Polar Lander, thereby sparing NASA another major embarrassment. [Not quite, as we later discovered...]
• "Moon fires jets at Jupiter." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p. 17. A sodium cloud, created by Io.
• "Disastrous Discovery." New Scientist, 20 November 1999, p. 25. Another wiring fault aboard a space shuttle.
• "Without consent." New Scientist, 13 November 1999, pp. 49-51. Interview: Jonathan Moreno, author of Undue Risk.
• "Under a cloud." New Scientist, 6 November 1999, pp. 18-19. (With Michael Day.) Focus: Is the failure of the CTBT due to science or to politics?
• "Riding the Wave." New Scientist, 6 November 1999, p. 21. Microwave engines for spacecraft.
• "Proton blame." New Scientist, 6 November 1999, p. 25. Another Proton rocket fails.
• "Spam hits the fan." New Scientist, 30 October 1999, p. 14. Leading internet provider bans all e-mail coming from commercial sites in the UK.
• "All over in a flash." New Scientist, 23 October 1999, p. 16. Chemistry nobel to Ahmed Zewail for femtosecond snapshots.
• "Moon mystery emerges from the X-files." New Scientist, 23 October 1999, p. 22. Transient lunar phenomenon spotted by satellite.
• "Masters of infinity." New Scientist, 23 October 1999, p. 23. Physics Nobel to 't Hooft and Veltman for renormalizing electroweak theory.
• "NASA's clawback." New Scientist, 23 October 1999, p. 27. NASA's budget restored.
• "Space delay." New Scientist, 16 October 1999, p. 25. ISS delay.
• "Slipping schedules," New Scientist, 25 September 1999, p. 5. Shuttle launch delays.
• "Faked tests hit space station." New Scientist, 25 September 1999. NASA subcontractor admits faking quality-control tests.
• "Space healing." New Scientist, 25 September 1999, p. 20. Using light to heal astronauts.
• "Lies, damned lies..." New Scientist, 25 September 1999, p. 22. A statistical quirk might fool people looking for weather trends.
• "Rocket revival." New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 5. Kazakhstan allows Proton launches again.
• "Ultracool atoms caught acting strangely." New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 6. Fermi-degenerate gas created.
• "Engage dark matter!" New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 11. Using feces for fuel.
• "Playing for real." New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 19. Netropolitan: What to do when the network dies.
• "Let's learn Lincos." New Scientist, 18 September 1999, pp. 36-39. Communicating with aliens.
• "Talking to Aliens." New Scientist, 18 September 1999, p. 38. Sidebar: Previous attempts at alien chit-chat.
• "Tiff over GIFs sparks Net uproar." New Scientist, 11 September 1999, p. 7. Royalties demanded for GIF format.
• "No free launches." New Scientist, 11 September 1999, p. 27. GAO challenges NASA estimates of ISS upkeep.
• "X-ray vision." New Scientist, 4 September 1999, p. 5. First light from Chandra.
• "Waiting for NASA." New Scientist, 4 September 1999, p. 23. ISS delay.
• "Last days of Mir." New Scientist, 4 September 1999, pp. 43-44. Interview: Jean-Pierre Hagniere, aboard Mir.
• "Mir: from birth to death." New Scientist, 4 September 1999, p. 45. Sidebar: Mir timeline.
• "Dad's tale." New Scientist, 4 September 1999, p. 46. Book review: Michael Foale's father's memoir, Waystation to the Stars.
• "Roll-over week." New Scientist, 21 August 1999, p. 5. Bracing for GPS date rollover.
• "Crash landing." New Scientist, 21 August 1999, p. 5. Iridium LLC files for Chapter 11.
• "Starry mix-up." New Scientist, 21 August 1999, p. 5. Accounting error with distant supernovae?
• "Frayed nerves." New Scientist, 21 August 1999, p. 17. Wiring problems with shuttles.
• "Mysterious force." New Scientist, 21 August 1999, p. 19. Largest cosmological simulation yet.
• "Foul play won the day in the RoboCup." New Scientist, 14 August 1999, p. 6. Robot soccer results.
• "The frugal frontier." New Scientist, 7 August 1999, p. 5. NASA's budget under siege.
• "Lunar letdown." New Scientist, 7 August 1999, p. 13. No water found after crash of Lunar Prospector.
• "Titanic duck." New Scientist, 7 August 1999, p. 23. Hydrocarbon ocean on Titan.
• "Headache in orbit." New Scientist, 31 July 1999, p. 5. Bad air aboard the ISS.
• "Dredged up." New Scientist, 31 July 1999, p. 21. Grissom's capsule recovered.
• "Regaining control." New Scientist, 31 July 1999, p. 21. New guidance computer for Mir.
• "NASA plans on having a smashing time." New Scientist, 17 July 1999, p. 11. Two new missions: smashing into a comet and exploring Mercury.
• "Spaced out."New Scientist, 17 July 1999, p. 19. Netropolitan: 20th anniversary of moon landing.
• "It's very strange, but not quantum." New Scientist, 17 July 1999, p. 20. NMR quantum computers not quantum computers?
• "Out to launch." New Scientist, 17 July 1999, p. 23. Proton failure spurs launch ban.
• "Off target." New Scientist, 10 July, 1999, p. 22. GPS civilian channels in danger.
• "Glitch in space." New Scientist, 10 July 1999, p. 23. WIRE popped top due to power glitch.
• "The big picture." New Scientist, 3 July 1999, p. 7. Three-dimensional pictures with ordinary cameras.
• "Planet snappers are foiled again." 3 July 1999, p. 13. TMR-1C not a planet?
• "To cook up a new species, heat gently." 3 July 1999, p. 16. Bug bites go up as climate gets hotter.
• "Skywatcher." New Scientist, 3 July 1999, p. 23. Launch of FUSE.
• "A lucky escape." New Scientist, 26 June 1999, p. 5. Space station narrowly misses disaster.
• "High ambitions." New Scientist, 19 June 1999, p. 5. Pictures of new Chinese manned rocket.
• "Primes mean prizes." New Scientist, 19 June 1999, p. 13. The 38th Mersenne prime found.
• "Seventh time lucky." New Scientist, 19 June 1999, p. 25. THAAD hits its target -- finally.
• "Stunning gun." New Scientist, 12 June 1999, p. 10. Variable-speed bullets.
• "Cracking code." New Scientist, 12 June 1999, p. 11. DNA steganography.
• "No more Mir." New Scientist, 12 June 1999, p. 23. Final call for space station?
• "No snow show." New Scientist, 12 June 1999, p. 25. Space snowballs aren't pelting the earth.
• "A drip in time and space." New Scientist, 5 June 1999, p. 11. Jackson Pollock's paintings analyzed with fractals.
• "Hubble knows." New Scientist, 5 June 1999, p. 11. Universe's expansion rate announced by NASA -- others more cautious.
• "Earth calling ET... we mead you know harm." New Scientist, 5 June 1999, p. 12. Typo in a message to ET.
• "Kicking up a storm on Mars." New Scientist, 29 May 1999, p. 7. Largest storm ever seen on Mars.
• "Publish and be damned." New Scientist, 29 May 1999, p. 19. Netropolitan: Permanence on the net.
• "Going solo." New Scientist, 29 May 1999, p. 21. Deep Space 1's guidance system hiccups.
• "Flat battery." New Scientist, 29 May 1999, p. 21. Terriers satellite deployment problem.
• "Under the weather." New Scientist, 22 May 1999, p. 21. Satellite soaked by rain.
• "Back in business." New Scientist, 22 May 1999, p. 21. Galileo's bug fixed.
• "Out of the wreckage." New Scientist, 15 May 1999, pp. 4-5. On the wake of killer tornadoes... how do we prevent further disasters? Co-authors: Gabrielle Walker and Kurt Kleiner.
• "On a losing streak." New Scientist, 15 May 1999, p. 15. A series of failed rocket launches damages US credibility.
• "Spaced out."New Scientist, 8 May 1999, p. 5. Netropolitan: start-up launch companies. This article had significant repercussions. See Space Access Update #85 or the SpaceViews article for details.
• "Come fly with us." New Scientist, 8 May 1999. Trying to keep Mir aloft, Energia turns to an unusual benefactor.
• "Up in the air." New Scientist, 1 May 1999, p. 5. Mir's orbit boosted.
• "Getting molecules into a spin." New Scientist, 1 May 1999, p. 16. Optical twisters -- lasers as centrifuges.
• "Damp squib." New Scientist, 1 May 1999, p. 25. Delta-III hangfire.
• "In a jam." New Scientist, 24 April 1999, p. 5. Jammed antenna aboard Mars Global Surveyor.
• "Powered up." New Scientist, 24 April 1999, p. 10. Using microwaves from the ground to power satellites.
• "X-ray delay." New Scientist, 24 April 1999, p. 19. Failure of intertial upper stage might delay Chandra X-ray facility.
• "Holes together." New Scientist, 24 April 1999, p. 25. Middleweight black holes found.
• "Alien planets." New Scientist, 24 April 1999, p. 25. Family of planets found?
• "Dangerous din." New Scientist, 17 April 1999, p. 4. The International Space Station is so noisy that it damage the hearing of its astronauts -- just like what happened aboard Mir.
• "Poles Apart." New Scientist, 10 April 1999, p. 8. Theory of magnetic field reversals and excursions.
• "Pie in the Sky." New Scientist, 10 April 1998, p. 14. THAAD fails again.
• "Honey, I shrank the Reactor." New Scientist, 3 April 1999, p. 6. At the American Physical Society meeting in Atlanta: tabletop fusion.
• "The soft footfall that signals dinner." New Scientist, 3 April 1998, p. 9. At the APS meeting: how the scorpion senses its prey.
• "Picture this." New Scientist, 3 April 1999, p.7. At the APS meeting: using laser-polarized xenon and MRI to get detailed images of the lungs.
• "Diamonds aren't forever." New Scientist, 3 April 1999, p. 7. At the APS meeting: turning diamond into a metal.
• "Changing Stations." New Scientist, 27 March 1999, p. 27. Sending astronauts early to the ISS?
• "Star Wars Returns." New Scientist, 27 March 1999, p. 27. ABM treaty in danger of American abrogation?
• "Red faces all round." New Scientist, 20 March 1999, p. 16. Embarrassing leaks from Los Alamos.
• "Snapshots of space." New Scientist, 20 March 1999, p. 19. Netropolitan: satellite images on the web.
• "Looking sharp." New Scientist, 13 March 1999, p. 5. New high-temperature materials out of NASA.
• "It looks like a bug..." New Scientist, 13 March 1999, p. 7. More "microbes" from Mars... this time in a meteorite that, according to legend, hit a dog.
• "Flying into danger." New Scientist, 13 March 1999, p. 12. NASA embarrassed at failure to do probabilistic risk assessment for the International Space Station.
• "The new wave." New Scientist, 13 March 1999, p. 16. Guiding neutral atoms with magnets.
• "It's style, but knot as you know it." New Scientist, 6 March 1999, p. 6. New knots for your tie.
• "Deathly hush." New Scientist, 6 March 1999, p. 10. Owls lead to stealthier aircraft?
• "Dollars turn swords into... more swords." New Scientist, 6 March 1999, p. 17. Criticisms of the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program.
• "Got there at last." New Scientist, 6 March 1999, p. 17. Mars Global Surveyor in the right orbit.
• "Supercold helium picks a fight with Newton." New Scientist, 27 February 1999, p. 23. Particles with backwards momentum.
• "Deep message." New Scientist, 27 February 1999, p. 24. Whale grammar?
• "Final Curtain." New Scientist, 27 February 1999, p. 25. Mysterious foreign Mir backer vanishes in a puff of smoke.
• "All together now." New Scientist, 27 February 1999, p. 27. Decaying isotopes show structure in nucleus.
• "One big earful." New Scientist, 20 February 1999, p. 16. A one-hectare telescope to listen for ET.
• "It's a winner." New Scientist, 20 February 1999, p. 25. CP violation in B mesons.
• "Wild encounter." New Scientist, 13 February 1999, p. 5. Stardust mission away...
• "The Wright stuff." New Scientist, 13 February 1999, p. 22. An airplane on Mars?
• "... and how to see through the wrong stuff." New Scientist, 13 February 1999, p. 22. Synthetic vision program at NASA.
• "Escape from Earth." New Scientist, 6 February 1999, p. 6. NASA pursues bizarre antigravity research.
• "Send in the clouds." New Scientist, 6 Feburary 1999, p. 17. High-velocity hydrogen clouds' origin found?
• "Space station blues." New Scientist, 6 February 1999, p. 19. Software problems with ISS; mysterious backer for Mir?
• "Jam packed." New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 7. Reducing traffic congestion by adding cars?
• "No contest."New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 9. Computers v. Humans in Turing test.
• "The heaviest element of them all." New Scientist, 30 January 1999, p. 14. Element 114 synthesized?
• "Will it crack?" New Scientist, 23 January 1999, p. 20. Irish schoolchild helps develop encryption scheme.
• "Why rockets fly better with jelly." New Scientist, 23 January 1999, p. 20. Gel-fueled rockets.
• "All for nothing." New Scientist, 16 January 1999, p. 21. Gyro failure might doom SOHO.
• "Galactic collisions." New Scientist, 16 January 1999, p. 23. Early universe more violent than today?
• "Second time lucky." New Scientist, 9 January 1999, p. 5. NEAR miss.
• "Into the void." New Scientist, 9 January 1999, p. 11. Tachyons helping gauge theory black holes swallow?
• "Thank our lucky star." New Scientist, 9 January 1999, p. 15. Should we have been hit by a superflare?
• "Say 'Hi' to the next-door neighbors." New Scientist, 9 January 1999, p. 15. The next message to aliens.
• "Victorious dwarfs." New Scientist, 9 January 1999, p. 21 Something keeps large stars from forming in dwarf galaxies?
• "Mars attack." New Scientist, 19/26 December 1998 - 2 January 1999, p. 14. The next Mars mission.
• "Close friends." New Scientist, 12 December 1998, p. 13. The first two modules of the ISS meet at last; Ukraine joining ISS effort?
• "If you can't beat them..." New Scientist, 12 December 1998, p.27. NASA investigates mission to Mir.
• "Organic ingredient." New Scientist, 12 December 1998, p. 29. Methyl on Neptune.
• "Teething troubles." New Scientist, 5 December 1998, p. 5. ISS module has early troubles.
• "Back on track." New Scientist, 5 December 1998, p. 5. Deep Space 1's ion drive fires.
• "Silent witness." New Scientist, 28 November 1998, p. 5. Voyager 2 goes silent, then revives.
• "A new sunrise for human spaceflight." New Scientist, 28 November 1998, p. 13. First element of the ISS launched.
• "Disposable downtime." New Scientist, 28 November 1998, p. 19. Netropolitan: Distributed computing.
• "Was that it?" New Scientist, 28 November 1998, p. 20. Less enjoyable than expected, climaxed too soon: the Leonid storm.
• "Defenceless." New Scientist, 28 November 1998, p. 25. How viruses outwit plants' defenses.
• "Orbital shift is a Mir hiccup." New Scientist, 21 November 1998, p.5. Last minute change in plans to ISS?
• "A better booster." New Scientist, 21 November 1998, p. 22. An alternative to the ion drive: the Hall thruster.
• "Bubbly solution." New Scientist, 21 November 1998, p. 27. Sonochemical explanation?
• "ISS Titanic." New Scientist, 14 November 1998, p. 38. Prediction for the ISS: people will die.
• "Yes, Mr. Vice-President." New Scientist, 7 November 1998, p. 5. Is NASA's latest project an expensive attempt to curry favor?
• "Strange journeys through the center of the Earth." New Scientist, 7 November, 1998, p. 20. Is the core a single glob?
• "No turning back." New Scientist, 31 October 1998, p. 21. It's official: time is not symmetrical.
• "Unfit for duty." New Scientist, 31 October 1998, p. 25. Glenn disqualified from space study.
• "Beam me up." New Scientist, 31 October 1998, p. 26. The latest in quantum teleportation.
• "Into the vortex." New Scientist, 24 October 1998, p. 7. Nobel prize in physics: fractional quantum Hall effect.
• "Fusion catches a cold." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 4. The end of ITER?
• "Safe havens." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 11. A mathematical model implies a harbor for HIV.
• "Let's cool it." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 14. Mystery force is traced to satellites' waste heat.
• "Light angles." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 21. Photonic crystals turn light on a dime.
• "Cookies won't crumble." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 21. The legal status of internet cookies: unclear.
• "Long ago, far away." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p.23. Looking at the Hubble Deep Field in IR.
• "There's the rub." New Scientist, 17 October 1998, p. 30. Feature: the story of friction. (With Ben Crystall.)
• "Heart of darkness." New Scientist, 10 October 1998, p. 6. Images of the center of the Milky Way.
• "Safe not sorry." New Scientist, 10 October 1998, p. 21. AXAF delayed.
• "Delicate operations."New Scientist, 3 October 1998, p. 15. Software to dock a shuttle or snip a tumor.
• "Every dollar counts." New Scientist, 3 October 1998, p. 22. US bailout for Russian ISS efforts.
• "Cold War throwbacks get cash lifeline." New Scientist, 3 October 1998, p. 22. Money to employ Russian rocket scientists.
• "Prime suspect."New Scientist, 26 September 1998, p.5. One math freak's obsession could put him behind bars.
• "Lazarus probe." New Scientist, 26 September 1998, p.5. SOHO back from the dead.
• "Cracked it." New Scientist, 26 September 1998, p.6. The mystery of ball lightning solved?
• "Messy eaters." New Scientist, 26 September 1998, p. 14. Some black holes may push away more than they devour.
• "Quantum leap." New Scientist, 19 September 1998, p. 23. Computers that do the impossible look increasingly possible.
• "Endless days." New Scientist, 19 September 1998, p. 27. Ocean circulation affects day length?
• "Slow burn." New Scientist, 19 September 1998, p. 27. Burning in space.
• "On the lookout." New Scientist, 19 September 1998, p. 46. Spotting a bioweapons attack.
• "If the force is with them." New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 4. Distant spacecraft are showing no respect for the laws of physics.
• "Solar probe is back from the brink." New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 5. SOHO's back!
• "Toughing it out." New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 10. Stress measurements on nanotubes.
• "Fragments of Windows go missing." New Scientist, 12 September 1998, p. 16. Microsoft inexplicably loses subpoenaed source code.(With Mark Ward)
• "Blow out." New Scientist, 5 September 1998, p. 5. Delta III explodes.
• "No way out." New Scientist, 5 September 1998, p. 20. Wormhole travel not possible?
• "Out for the count." New Scientist, 5 September 1998, p. 21. Judicial blow to statistical sampling.
• "Titan turns into a billion-dollar firework." New Scientist, 22 August 1998, p. 24. Titan IV explodes.
• "Touch and go for SOHO." New Scientist, 15 August 1998, p. 5. SOHO loses control.
• "Russia condemned." New Scientist, 15 August 1998, p. 5. Congressional anger at Russian ISS involvement.
• "Big chill." New Scientist, 15 August 1998, p. 23. New type of ice discovered.
• "Chaos at the polls." New Scientist, 15 August 1998, p.25. Mathematical proof of chaotic voting.
• Money for old rock. New Scientist, 8 August 1998, pp. 20-21. NASA's claim to have found evidence of life on Mars has attracted a torrent of research funds. But some scientists are uneasy about the way the agency hyped the story to win the cash.
• Too damned hot. New Scientist, 1 August 1998, p. 21. Hell is, indeed, hotter than Heaven.
• Now you see it.... New Scientist, 1 August 1998, p. 23. Galaxy switches off.
• "The hunting of the tau neutrino." New Scientist, 25 July 1998, p. 17. An elusive particle spotted.
• Hungry star. New Scientist, 25 July 1998, p. 23. Pulsar caught stealing.
• "Final summer." New Scientist, 25 July 1998, pp.40-41. Feature: The end of the sun.
• Cold reception for superconductivity claim. New Scientist, 18 July 1998, p. 12. A perpetual-motion machine announced.
• "No ban for banks." New Scientist, 18 July 1998, p. 23. US relaxes encryption rules... sort of.
• "Danger zone." New Scientist, 11 July 1998, p. 11. A new class of asteroids discovered.
• Brave new worlds. New Scientist, 11 July 1998, p. 23. Terrestrial-type planets found?
• Gloom descends as SOHO goes AWOL. New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 5. A satellite lost?
• "Real cool." New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 15. Additive for your A/C.
• "Debris smashes budget for space station." New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 22. Problem with space junk.
• "Unlucky for some." New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 23. Lottery glitch: nine? Nein.
• Spooks show their hand. New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 23. NSA declassifies some algorithms.
• "Eccentric planets." New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 25. A batch of new planets.
• Stone me. New Scientist, 4 July 1998, p. 25. Ancient artificial rock.
• "Falling ticker tape to flying insects." New Scientist, 27 June 1998, p. 16. Fluid dynamics and confetti.
• Shrinking balls. New Scientist, 27 June 1998, p. 25. C36 buckyball synthesized.
• "Galactic surprise." New Scientist, 20 June 1998, p. 27. Galaxies forming earlier than expected?
• "Martian cutbacks." New Scientist, 13 June 1998, p. 5. Mars plans scaled down.
• Einstein in free fall. New Scientist, 13 June 1998, p. 11. One foundation of General Relativity in question.
• Battle of the browsers. New Scientist, 13 June 1998, p. 24. Microsoft's internet software disables its competitor.
• It's a whole new world. New Scientist, 6 June 1998, p. 4. New planet found.
• "Late Launch." New Scientist, 6 June 1998, p. 23. Space station delayed.
• "When only the fittest drugs survive." New Scientist, 30 May 1998, p. 13. Evolving chemicals.
• Orbital sweepstake. New Scientist, 30 May 1998, p. 25. You may already be an astronaut.
• "Lost contact." New Scientist, 30 May 1998, p. 25. Satellite failure kills pagers.
• "Playing with aliens could reveal your secrets." New Scientist, 16 May 1998, p. 15. A computer game violates your privacy.
• "Biggest bang." New Scientist, 16 May 1998, p. 25. Huge explosion in space.
• Fingers crossed. New Scientist, 9 May 1998, pp. 4-5. Guaranteed problem for the International Space Station: launch failure.
• "Look behind you." New Scientist, 9 May 1998, p.54. Opinion: electronic snooping endangers privacy.
• Blown away. New Scientist, 2 May 1998, p. 15. Why hurricanes are so capricious.
• "No snooping!" New Scientist, 2 May 1998, p. 20. Infrared cameras declared an invasion of privacy.
• "Just two photons trapped by fate." New Scientist, 25 April 1998, p. 14. Entangling photons that never met.
• "Running on empty." New Scientist, 25 April 1998, pp.36-37. Feature: NASA's attempts to build an engine that uses no fuel at all.
• A marriage made in cyberspace. New Scientist, 18 April 1998, p. 6. Royal Mail program lets you e-mail someone who has no access to a computer.
• Quantum leap. New Scientist, 18 April, 1998 p. 10. A chloroform machine ushers in the age of quantum computing.
• "Arms race". New Scientist, 18 April 1998, p. 23. Chemical warfare against antibiotic resistance.
• "This way up." New Scientist, 11 April 1998, p. 14. Puckering to fight HIV.
• "Name game." New Scientist, 11 April 1998, p. 23. Naming a satellite.
• "You are here." New Scientist, 11 April 1998, p. 23. GPS gets extra signals.
• Cooking up the recipe for a modern Stradivarius. New Scientist, 4 April 1998, p. 20. Briny music.
• Winds of change. New Scientist, 4 April 1998, p. 21. El Nino slows the Earth's rotation.
• "Money well spent." New Scientist, 4 April 1998, p. 23. Getting a return on R&D.
• "Song of the Earth." New Scientist, 4 April 1998, p. 25. Earthly ringing unexplained by earthquakes.
• "Hair we go." New Scientist, 28 March 1998, p. 21. The newest hairy star.
• "Cracking quakes." New Scientist, 28 March 1998, p. 23. Earthquake model matches the real thing.
• Salty Moon. New Scientist, 28 March 1998, p. 23. Salts in Europa's ocean -- and maybe nitrates.
• "Egg race." New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 10. Game theory explains Down's syndrome?
• A clockwork pine. New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 10. Why trees spiral in opposite directions in different hemispheres.
• "Cold spin." New Scientist, 21 March 1998, p. 15. A frictionless superconducting bearing.
• Cold fusion farewell. 21 March 1998, p. 23. The end to Utah's quest for cold fusion patents.
• Frozen history. New Scientist, 14 March 1998, p. 5. Water on the moon.
• "Woman power." New Scientist, 14 March 1998, p. 7. First female shuttle commander named.
• "Little lake has greatness thrust upon it." New Scientist, 14 March 1998, p. 13. A new great lake?
• Io's ups and downs. New Scientist, 14 March 1998, p. 25. Biggest landslide in the solar system found.
• "History lesson." New Scientist, 7 March 1998, p.5. NASA cancels Clark project.
• "Student takeoff." New Scientist, 7 March 1998, p. 5. Student Nitric Oxide Explorer launched.
• "Memory man fails in libel suit." New Scientist, 7 March 1998, p. 25. Benveniste's suit fails.
• "Mummies' curse." New Scientist, 28 February 1998, p. 21. From the AAAS meeting: using information theory to find the origin of syphilis.
• "Golden genes." New Scientist, 28 February 1998, p. 23. Using gold particles to mark DNA.
• "Medieval light catches the colours of disease." New Scientist, 21 February 1998, p. 9. Using tiny metal particles to stain slides.
• Divide and rule. New Scientist, 21 February 1998, p. 22. Tin "earthworms" make nanowires.
• "A snail's pace." New Scientist, 21 February 1998, pp. 40-43. Feature: How the physics of heat and entropy determine how you browse the web.
• "Jam buster." New Scientist, 21 February 1998, p. 42. Sidebar: Using portfolios to improve web browsers.
• "Space bubbles knock exploded stars into shape." New Scientist, 14 February 1998, p. 6. How supernova remnants get their shapes.
• "To the iceworld." New Scientist, 14 February 1998, p. 20. Europa or bust.
• A river ran through it. New Scientist, 14 February 1998, p. 21. A dried river on Mars.
• "NASA's wings clipped." New Scientist, 7 February 1998, p.5. Budget crunch scuttles manned missions.
• "Cancer probe has glowing future." New Scientist, 7 February 1998, p.6. Laser light to spot cancer.
• "Well, that's sorted then..." New Scientist, 7 February 1998, p. 10. A new sieve to sort molecules.
• "Kinky characters." New Scientist, 31 January 1998, p.12. Mathematicians study "perversions."
• So near. New Scientist, 31 January 1998, p. 19. Interplanetary craft visible to the naked eye.
• "Eyeless in the observatory." New Scientist, 31 January 1998, p.47. Opinion: optical, radio, and atmospheric pollution threaten to end ground-based observations.
• "Space for all." New Scientist 24 January, 1998, p. 5. John Glenn to return to space.
• "Lunar sacrilege." New Scientist, 24 January 1998, p.5. Navajo Nation objects to lunar burial.
• "Stars of the small screen." New Scientist, 17 January, 1998, p. 10. New monitors coming your way.
• "Jet-setting black holes bare all." New Scientist, 17 January, 1998, p. 15. From the AAS meeting in Washington, a black hole pops its top.
• Tricky light. New Scientist, 17 January, 1998, p. 17. Iridium satellites brighter than Venus in the sky.
• Reclusive stars. New Scientist, 17 January, 1998, p. 23. From the AAS meeting, COBE finds starlight from all the stars in the universe, past and present.
• "Auroras light up Saturn's poles." New Scientist, 17 January, 1998, p. 23. From the AAS meeting, glowing circles on Saturn.
• Where am I?New Scientist, 10 January, 1998, p. 5. Russian company develops a cheap, portable GPS jammer.
• A star's best friend. New Scientist, 10 January, 1998, p. 23. Diamonds help gas clouds coalesce.
• Dowsing on the moon. New Scientist, 3 January, 1998, p. 11. The newest mission to the moon: Lunar Prospector.
• "Shuttle is shielded." New Scientist, 3 January, 1998, p. 17. Reinforcement against space debris.
• Ever Outward. New Scientist, 3 January, 1998, p. 19. Heat death, not big crunch.
• Exotic planet is gone with the wind. New Scientist, 20/27 December, 1997, p. 12. Solar wind creates planetary doppelganger.
• Gel makes go-faster chips. New Scientist, 20/27 December, 1997, p. 19. Aerogel helps copper speed up microchips.
• Noise Power. New Scientist, 13 December 1997, p. 17. Using sound as a piston.
• "Tiny T-junctions." New Scientist, 13 December, 1997, p. 17. Carbon nanotube tinkertoys.
• Light-hearted planet. New Scientist, 13 December, 1997, p. 20. Hydrogen in the Earth's core?
• "Beam me up." New Scientist, 13 December, 1997, p. 25. Latest news on quantum teleportation.
• "CAT spots worm in ageing violin." New Scientist, 6 December 1997, p. 11. X-rays for violins.
• "Beat that." New Scientist, New Scientist, 6 December 1997, p. 15. Jazz-jamming computer.
• "Rhythm of Life." New Scientist, 6 December 1997, p. 25. Tapping fingers reveals neural memory.
• Riders on the Storm. New Scientist, 29 November, 1997, p. 7. NASA commissions twin satellites to study magnetosphere.
• Cracking the Whip. New Scientist, 29 November, 1997, p. 27. Did sauropods crack their tails?
• "Up for the count." New Scientist, 22 November 1997, p. 25. Statistical sampling for the 2000 census?
• "The curse of open government." New Scientist, 15 November 1997, p. 14. The National Academy of Sciences forced to open its committee meetings to the public.
• Jam Making. New Scientist, 15 November, 1997 p. 29. Traffic jams act like solids.
• "Magic roundabout." New Scientist, 8 November 1997, p. 5. Strange relativistic quirk observed around dense stars.
• "All stressed out." New Scientist, 8 November 1997, p.11. Using magnetism to detect steel fatigue.
• "Only the lonely." New Scientist, 8 November 1997, p. 29. A brown dwarf floats alone in space.
• "Satellite hit." New Scientist, 1 November 1997, p. 29. A controversial laser test goes awry.
• "See-through chips." New Scientist, 1 November 1997, p. 31. A p-type transparent semiconductor.
• "Stellar palpitations." New Scientist, 1 November 1997, p. 31. The changing heartbeat of a dying star.
• "Manmade molecule takes an odd direction." New Scientist, 25 October 1997, p. 11. A symmetric molecule which always looks asymmetric.
• Just Cool It. New Scientist, 25 October, 1997, p. 15. Physics Nobel for atom chillers.
• "Keep it short." New Scientist, 25 October 1997, p. 17. Why single-domain proteins don't get very long.
• "Slingshot to Saturn." New Scientist, 25 October 1997, p. 25. The controversial Cassini mission gets underway.
• "Bubbles will bust up pollutants." New Scientist, 19 October 1997, p. 19. Using cavitation to purify water.
• "Alice beams up 'entangled' photon." New Scientist, 12 October 1997, pp. 20-21. Quantum teleportation demonstrated for the first time.
• "Sulphuruous ships." New Scientist, 12 October 1997, p. 21. A hollow agreement over ship pollution.
• "Fusion record." New Scientist, 4 October 1997, p. 21. The Joint European Torus produces more power than ever before.
• Turn Back the Clock. New Scientist, 27 September, 1997, p. 10. NATO scientists reverse time.
• Memory Man Hits Out. New Scientist, 27 September, 1997, p. 12. Jacques Benveniste sues two Nobel Laureates.
• "Homeopathy study wins few converts." New Scientist, 27 September, 1997, p.12. Head of the Office of Alternative medicine publishes unconvincing meta-analysis of homeopathy trials.
• Light Work. New Scientist, 27 September, 1997, p. 23. Getting matter out of light for the first time.
• Too Hot to Handle. New Scientist, 20 September, 1997, p. 10. Taking the temperature of the internet.
• "Ganymede calling Earth, come in please." New Scientist, 20 September 1997, p. 26. Radio from Jovian moon.
• "No shame." New Scientist, 20 September 1997, p. 26. A naked black hole found.
• "Reduced Charge." New Scientist, 13 September 1997, p. 10. Fractionally-charged imaginary particles found.

• "A look at both ends of the telescope ." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 May, 1998, Sec. Q, p. 4. Review of Michael Lemonick's Other Worlds.
• "A vexing math problem, an answer that added up." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 30 November, 1997, p. TK. Review of Simon Singh's Fermat's Enigma.
• "The story of infinity, beginning in ancient Greece." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 June, 1997, p. Q3. Review of Richard Morris' Achilles in the Quantum Universe.
• "Music and mathematics and their surprisingly harmonious relationship." The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1995 Sec. H, p. 3. Review of Edward Rothstein's Emblems of Mind.
• "Counting the Ways Numbers are Used and Misused in News." The Philadephia Inquirer, April 30, 1995, Sec. M, p. 3. Review of John Paulos' A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
• "Mysterious Pulling of Galaxies." The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 6, 1994, Sec. K, p. 3. Review of Alan Dressler's Voyage to the Great Attractor.

• "Spin Doctor." Princeton Alumni Weekly, October 11, 1995, pp. 12-15. Profile of Joseph Hooton Taylor, Nobel-winning astrophysicist.

• Blunting Nature's Swiss Army Knife. Science, 12 September, 1997, v.277, pp. 1602-1603. Protease inhibitors attack diseases other than AIDS.
• Curve Throws X-rays for a Loop. Science, August 15 1997, v. 277, p.902. Using whispering galleries to steer x- rays.
• Microwaves Steal the Blush From Ruby. Science, August 15 1997, v. 277, p.899. Making rubies clearer with light.
• Fighting Allergies Without a Reaction. Science, August 1 1997, v.277, p.643. Brewery engineers altered proteins.
• Model Explains Internet 'Storms'. Science, July 25 1997, v. 277, p.477. Economic theory explains congestion.
• Arecibo's More Sensitive Eye on the Sky. Science, June 20 1997, v. 276, p.1785. Famous radiotelescope back in action.
• Flaw Found in a Quantum Code. Science, 16 May, 1997, v. 276, p. 1034. Quantum cryptographic search found to be fruitless.
• Primordial Gas: Fog, not clouds. Science, 9 May, 1997, v. 276, p. 899. Researchers find missing baryonic matter.
• New Test Sizes Up Randomness. Science, 25 April, 1997, v. 276, p. 532. Mathematicians quantify randomness and are surprised with results.
• Atoms Take a Turn for the Better. Science, 14 February, 1997, v. 275, p. 931. Atom interferometry improving to commercial quality.
• The Subtle Pull of Emptiness. Science, 10 January, 1997, v. 275, p.158. A measurement of one of the strangest forces in quantum mechanics.
• Hedging Bets on Hard Problems. Science, 3 January, 1997, v. 275, p. 33. Using macroeconomic theory in computer algorithms to increase speed.
• On Ice's Surface, a Dance of Molecules. Science, 20 December, 1996, v. 274, p.2012. Electron diffraction gives new explanation for ice's slipperiness.
• "First Blush for Integrated Light Emitter." Science, 29 November, 1996, v. 274, p. 1465. Light emitting silicon and integrated circuits wed on a single chip.
• "Do Comets Get a Nudge From the Galaxy?" Science, 8 November, 1996, v.274, p.920. Possible explanation of how comets get nudged into the solar system.
• "New Attacks Breach Computer Codes." Science, 1 November, 1996, v.274, pp. 716-717. New cryptanalysis method cracks DES and other popular encryption schemes.
• "Winning Incentives for Truthtelling." Science, 18 October, 1996, v.274, p.347. The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to truth experts.
• "Web Pits One Against the World." Science, 30 August 1996, v. 273, p. 1166. Karpov v. world.
• "Do JAVA Users Live Dangerously?" Science, 2 August 1996, v.273, p. 592. Security loopholes plague JAVA.

• A Light at the Heart of the Atom. ScienceNow, 13 August 1997. Nuclei glow.
• X-rays Thrown for a Loop. ScienceNow, 7 August 1997. Whispering galleries for X-rays.
• Atomic Jockeys. ScienceNow, 5 August 1997. Manipulating atoms with great precision.
• See-Through Rubies. ScienceNow, 4 August 1997. Electromagnetically-induced transparency.
• DNA Heals a Broken Heart. ScienceNow, 1 August 1997. Using oligonucleotides for heart problems.
• Ice Worms from the Deep. INSCiGHT Newswire, 30 July 1997. Frigid worms in methane ice.
• Charged Nicotine. INSCiGHT Newswire, 29 July 1997. Freebasing cigarettes.
• A Sound Way to Beat Chaos. INSCiGHT Newswire, 28 July 1997. Time-reversal in sound.
• Net Hogs Slow the Web. ScienceNow, 24 July 1997. Explanation for internet "storms."
• Taking the Risk Out of Allergy Shots. INSCiGHT Newswire, 22 July 1997. Genetically engineered allergens reduce risk of anaphylaxis.
• Wetter Polar Winds. ScienceNow, 21 July 1997. Scientists see water leaking out of atmosphere.
• Human Epidemic of Mad Cow Disease Unlikely. INSCiGHT Newswire, 16 July 1997. Good news on the BSE front.
• Robbing the Stellar Cradle. ScienceNow, 15 July 1997. Starbursts linked to active galactic nuclei?
• Protein Shapeshifters. INSCiGHT Newswire, 3 July 1997. Transforming alpha-helices to beta-sheets.
• Big Chill Helps Penguins Dive Deep. ScienceNow, 2 July 1997. Birdsicles.
• Let's Hope This Isn't Your Fault. INSCiGHT Newswire, 1 July 1997. "Superfaults" classified.
• Making Supernovas Look Like Mere Firecrackers. ScienceNow, 30 June 1997. Theory for cataclysmic explosions explains gamma-ray bursts?
• Using Light to Get Under Your Skin. INSCiGHT Newswire, 26 June 1997. New optical imaging technique.
• Rapid Collapse Gave Giant Planets Gas? ScienceNow, 24 June 1997. Quick, one-step accretion back in favor?
• Hot News From Chinese Ice. INSCiGHT Newswire, 20 June 1997. Did China have a tropical climate?
• Mellifluous Superfluid. ScienceNow, 18 June 1997. Music with liquid helium.
• Interstellar Mystery Molecules Found? INSCiGHT Newswire, 16 June 1997. Unstable carbenes isolated.
• Arecibo Reprise. ScienceNow, 13 June 1997. Famous radiotelescope back in action.
• Earth's Pet Rock. ScienceNow, 11 June, 1997. A new companion asteroid found to have complicated horseshoe orbit.
• The Case of the Superbright Supernova. ScienceNow, 10 June, 1997. An unusually bright supernova explained.
• A Bloodstained T. rex? ScienceNow, 09 June, 1997. Controversial evidence for ancient blood.
• Recounting a Flawed Past. ScienceNow, 5 June, 1997. Brain damage and the past tense stirring up an old debate.
• Our Solar System is Getting Crowded. ScienceNow, 4 June, 1997. New planetesimal the first in a new class of objects.
• Junk DNA Tips off Tumor Comeback. INSCiGHT Newswire, 3 June, 1997. Screening for cancer using damaged DNA.
• Shock Therapy for Parkinson's Patients. ScienceNow, 2 June, 1997. Explaining a new technique for relieving Parkinson's symptoms.
• Cell Growth Technique Hits the Right Nerve. INSCiGHT Newswire, 29 May, 1997. Growing nerves on a dish.
• Stopping Rabies with Spinach? INSCiGHT Newswire, 28 May, 1997. Edible vaccine for rabies.
• Resolving the Faint Young Sun Paradox? INSCiGHT Newswire, 27 May, 1997. Carl Sagan's last paper: ammonia warmed the early earth?
• Brain Detects Novelty Even Without You Knowing. ScienceNow, 23 May, 1997. Unconscious learning.
• Sexism Reported in Swedish Peer Review. ScienceNow, 21 May, 1997. Solid evidence for sexism shakes community up.
• Bad Moods May Be Bad for a Bad Heart. INSCiGHT Newswire, 20 May, 1997. Negative emotions cause ischemia?
• Making a Difference in an Egg. INSCiGHT Newswire, 19 May, 1997. RNA localization in the egg.
• Keeping Muscles in Line. INSCiGHT Newswire, 15 May, 1997. Understanding the strange springiniess of titin.
• Punchier Drugs -- With Grapefruit Juice. INSCiGHT Newswire, 14 May, 1997. Explaining how grapefruit juice increases drug potency.
• America and Japan's Emotional Bond. ScienceNow, 13 May 1997. Using language to find cultural universals.
• Serotonin--Rx for the Second Sex? INSCiGHT Newswire, 12 May, 1997. Do women have an innate serotonin deficiency?
• Luring Light From the Straight and Narrow. ScienceNow, 9 May 1997. Using magnetism to steer laser beams.
• Fickle Photons Hobble Quantum Cryptography. ScienceNow, 6 May 1997. Long-term cryptographic quest proven useless.
• Deep Blue Strikes Back. INSCiGHT Newswire, 5 May, 1997. Man vs. Machine match tied at one apiece.
• Medlab on a chip. INSCiGHT Newswire, 2 May, 1997. Using rubber to guide antibodies on a microchip.
• Knot a Problem Any Longer. INSCiGHT Newswire, 30 April, 1997. Scientists find a stable knot.
• Lifeless Evolution. ScienceNow, 25 April 1997. RNA molecules evolve without intervention.
• Seeing the Baryonic Forest for the Trees. ScienceNow, 25 April 1997. New theory explains astronomical puzzle.
• Shrunken Brain Region Linked to Depression. INSCiGHT Newswire, 23 April, 1997. A small cortical region is linked to clinical depression.
• Supernova in a Jar. ScienceNow, 21 April 1997. At the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, Bose-Einstein condensates collapse like a supernova.
• Galactic Flare Sets a Record. ScienceNow, 18 April 1997. At the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, astronomers describe a record-breaking flash of gamma rays.
• More Plants in Greenhouse Earth. ScienceNow, 16 April 1997. Is the greenhouse effect promoting vegetation growth?
• Random Numbers Behaving Too Orderly? ScienceNow, 15 April 1997. Irrational numbers are not as crazy as they seem.
• Floating Frogs. ScienceNow, 14 April 1997. Dutch researchers put a frog in a strong magnetic field and voila!
• Protons With Lasting Memories. ScienceNow, 10 April, 1997. A new non-volatile memory chip.
• A New Spin on Gyroscopes. INSCiGHT Newswire, 9 April, 1997. Using superfluid helium for detecting rotation.
• Breast Cancer Trigger? ScienceNow, 2 April, 1997. Enzyme linked to malignant breast cancers.
• Bacterial Trojan Horse Against Fatal Disease. ScienceNow, 31 March, 1997. Engineering bacteria to fight Chagas' disease.
• Hale-Bopp's Mysterious Cargo. INSCiGHT Newswire, 27 March, 1997. Mineral raises questions about comet formation.
• Scrambling Into Space. INSCiGHT Newswire, 26 March, 1997. NASA's new scramjet program launched.
• X-Rays Reveal Death Spiral. INSCiGHT Newswire, 24 March, 1997. A measurement of a relativistic phenomenon around neutron stars.
• Engineers Heighten Their Sensitivity. ScienceNow, 21 March 1997. The world's record in measuring tiny forces.
• Ruthless Eldest Egrets. INSCiGHT Newswire, 20 March, 1997. Egrets help their siblings egress from this mortal coil.
• Start Your (Cellular) Engines! INSCiGHT Newswire, 19 March, 1997. New understanding of an enzyme which acts like a tiny motor.
• Mars Rock Cools Down, Life Debate Heats Up. ScienceNow, 13 March, 1997. Was ALH84001 cool or hot?
• Scientists Clash Over Global Warming--or Cooling? ScienceNow, 12 March, 1997. Dispute over satellite global warming data.
• How Cancer Cells Cheat Death. INSCiGHT Newswire, 10 March, 1997. Finding a genetic smoking gun in cancer?
• Molecular Chutes Away! INSCiGHT Newswire, 6 March, 1997. Soft landings of ions in substrates.
• A Hazy Sign of Distant Planets?, ScienceNow, 5 March 1997. A dust cloud found around a binary star system.
• Immune Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis. INSCiGHT Newswire, 1 March, 1997. Using immunoglobulin to reduce MS attacks.
• Are Looks Key to Faithful Reproduction? INSCiGHT Newswire, 26 February, 1997. Experiment shatters conventional wisdom about DNA replication.
• Red-Thumb Gardeners to Transform Agriculture? ScienceNow, 25 February, 1997. Hemoglobin makes superplants?
• Quelling an Irritable Bowel. INSCiGHT Newswire, 21 February, 1997. Using antibodies to fight Crohn's disease.
• How the Fair Solar Wind Blows. INSCiGHT Newswire, 20 February, 1997. At the AAAS meeting in Seattle, new data on solar wind.
• Computing on the Run. INSCiGHT Newswire, 14 February, 1997. At the AAAS meeting in Seattle, questions about mobile computing.
• Atoms Learn to Do the Twist. INSCiGHT Newswire, 8 February, 1997. Using atom beams for interferometry.
• Lasting Memories. INSCiGHT Newswire, 5 February, 1997. New research into making memories stick.
• Student Wins Race to Crack Code. ScienceNow, 3 February, 1997. Forty-bit cryptosystem cracked in four hours.
• Lipid-Silicon sandwich. INSCiGHT Newswire, 1 February, 1997. Fatty chips.
• Tiniest Transistor. INSCiGHT Newswire, 31 January, 1997. Using a single electron in a transistor.
• The Magnetic Pull of Plasma Jets. INSCiGHT Newswire, 30 January, 1997. Dual discoveries about jets from protostars.
• The Case of The Magic Metal. INSCiGHT Newswire, 27 January, 1997. Magic sizes responsible for metals' strange behavior.
• Dating the Scum of the Earth. ScienceNow, 24 January, 1997. New data on the age of the crust.
• Putting a Little Spring into Your Thoughts. INSCiGHT Newswire, 23 January, 1997. Does springiness cause the brain's convolutions?
• Protein Hints at RNA world. INSCiGHT Newswire, 17 January, 1997. Similarities between RNA- and DNA-binding proteins raise questions.
• A Heretical Shot at Superconductivity? INSCiGHT Newswire, 15 January, 1997. New evidence for Jahn-Teller polarons.
• Glowing Results From Flat-Screen Technology. INSCiGHT Newswire, 14 January, 1997. A low-voltage electroluminescent device found.
• Einstein's Forgotten Brainstorm. INSCiGHT Newswire, 10 January, 1997. Did Einstein forget some valuable equations?
• Rich Get Richer, But the Environment Not Sicker? INSCiGHT Newswire, 9 January, 1997. Investigating an old environmental equation.
• From Quantum Uncertainty, Guaranteed Secrecy. ScienceNow, 2 January 1997. Quantum cryptography in networks.
• Live Monkey AIDS Vaccine Safe After All? ScienceNow, 31 December 1996. Evidence that a live-attenuated vaccine may be safer than thought.
• Capturing a Phantom Force. ScienceNow, 30 December 1996. A strange quantum-mechanical force is measured for the first time.
• A Decoy for Immune Rogues. INSCiGHT Newswire, 23 December, 1996. Using RNA to deceive rogue antibodies.
• Polymer Brushes Caught Doing the Wave. INSCiGHT Newswire, 19 December, 1996. New imaging technique helps unravel polymer mysteries.
• Russia to Aid China's Crewed Space Effort. ScienceNow, 18 December 1996. Chinese cosmonauts train at Star City.
• New Hot-and-Fast Planets. ScienceNow, 16 December 1996. Three new planets shake astronomers' confidence.
• Breathing Less Easy in Arizona. ScienceNow, 13 December 1996. An emerging disease on the rise in Arizona: Valley Fever.
• A Dry Tale of Extinction. INSCiGHT Newswire, 11 December 1996. Evidence for many droughts pre-1200 AD.
• Getting a Grip on Ice. ScienceNow, 9 December 1996. New research into what makes ice so slippery.
• A Cozy Layer of Filthy Air. ScienceNow, 4 December 1996. NOAA Scientists claim that atmospheric dust may increase local temperatures rather than decrease them.
• A Chink in the Brain's Defenses. ScienceNow, 2 December 1996. Stress may affect the permeability of the blood-brain barrier.
• Glowing Silicon Chip Could Signal Microrevolution. INSCiGHT Newswire, 27 November 1996. Making silicon glow.
• Mythic Interstellar Quarry Spotted. ScienceNow, 27 November 1996. Elusive molecule finally found in space.
• Anatomy Text Linked to Nazi Victims? INSCiGHT Newswire, 26 November 1996. Anatomical Atlas raises ethical questions.
• Shedding Light on the Sun's Cancer Threat. ScienceNow, 25 November 1996. Smoking gun for UV-induced skin cancer found.
• Fermilab Ups the Anti(hydrogen). ScienceNow, 22 November, 1996. Matter and antimatter matter to scientists.
• The Genes Behind Butterfly Deception. INSCiGHT Newswire, 20 November, 1996. Butterfly eyespots yield clues about developmental and evolutionary biology.
• Requiem for a Dwarf. INSCiGHT Newswire, 15 November, 1996. Death of a galaxy causes a starburst.
• Poking and Prodding a Living Cell. ScienceNow, 12 November, 1996. Using the atomic force microscope to probe instead of using it to image.
• A Case of Immune-System Sabotage. INSCiGHT Newswire, 11 November, 1996. How measles suppresses the immune system.
• "Big Trouble for Little Babies?" INSCiGHT Newswire, 7 November, 1996. Possible link between low birth weight and coronary heart disease.
• "Starlight's Carbon Veil." ScienceNow, 5 November, 1996. New theory about mysterious absorption lines from interstellar gas.
• "Catching a Cheshire Atom." INSCiGHT newswire, 4 November, 1996. Lasers and quantum mechanics in isotope separation.
• "Comets Get a Galactic Boot." ScienceNow, 30 October, 1996. New research into the Oort comet cloud.
• "Ozone as Holey as Ever." INSCiGHT newswire, 28 October, 1996. The ozone hole gapes again.
• "Custom Drugs From Bacteria." ScienceNow, 25 October, 1996. A new development which leads to new chemicals' being produced by genetically altered bacteria.
• "Survey Finds Genetic Discrimination." INSCiGHT newswire, 24 October, 1996. A new study finds that people with potential genetic defects are discriminated against.
• "Computer Jocks Crack Encryption Standard." ScienceNow, 22 October, 1996. Recent developments in cryptanalysis -- including a successful attack against DES.
• "Putting a Stopwatch on Proteins." INSCiGHT newswire, 16 October, 1996. New research reveals how proteins fold.
• "Economics Nobel Goes to Truth Squad." Science Now, 8 October, 1996. The Nobel Prize in Economics goes to experts on truth. (INSCiGHT version.)

• "Mathemagician."The Sciences, May/June 1994. pp.12-15. Profile of John Horton Conway, inventor of the game of life.

• "Relatively Expensive." Scientific American, May 1996, p. 20. A unique Einstein manuscript is auctioned off.
• "Bad Timing." Scientific American, March 1996, p. 36. A new loophole undermines the security of public-key encryption.
• "A Harebrained Scheme." Scientific American, February 1996, pp. 24-26. A rabbit-killing virus run amok in Australia.
• "Free Wheeling." Scientific American, January 1996, p. 35. A new wheelchair has "legs."

"The biggest waste of money in the history of mankind." The Mail on Sunday, March 14, 1999, p. TK. Opinion: the International Space Station.

The Trenton Times:

• "Gifted But Odd, Baseball's Moe Berg Peaked, Dwindled, then Pined." The Trenton Times, September 18, 1994, Sec. DD, p. 4. Review of Nicholas Dawidoff's The Catcher Was A Spy: The Secret Life of Moe Berg.

• "Researchers Merge Bacteria, Silicon Chip." UPI Science News, April 16, 1997. Dipped chips.

• "Signal Seer." Wired UK, November 1996, pp. 67-69, 98-100. Profile of Bell Labs signals expert, David Thomson.

• E. Simonotto, M. Riani, C. Seife, M. Roberts, J. Twitty, and F. Moss, Visual Perception of Stochastic Resonance. Physical Review Letters, 78:6, 1186-1189. (1997)
• Charles Seife. Increasing Brain Tumor Rates: Is There a Link to Deficit Spending? J Neuropathol Exp Neurol, 1999; 58:4, 405-406.