Portfolio
My work has appeared in print and/or on the websites of National Geographic, Quanta Magazine, Discover, Popular Science, Smithsonian, Science News, Astronomy, New Scientist, Physics World, and Symmetry Magazine. Below are several samples of my work.
Astrophysics
We finally have an image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (Science News; May 12, 2022)
The universe’s background starlight is twice as bright as expected (Science News; March 22, 2022)
The Spacecraft that Changed How I See the Universe (National Geographic; June 2021 print issue)
How the Arecibo Observatory created a scientific legacy for Puerto Rico (Physics World; January 2021 print issue)
A bit of MAGIC (Symmetry Magazine; August 25, 2020)
Why are Black Holes so Bright? (Quanta Magazine; April 22, 2020)
Dear Fermi: What it means to see the universe’s extremes (National Geographic; June 11, 2019)
Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies (Quanta Magazine; October 24, 2018)
Hidden Supercluster Could Solve Milky Way Mystery (Quanta Magazine; November 21, 2017)
Supernovas Revealed in 3 Dimensions (Discover; July/August 2016)
After a Century of Searching, We Finally Detected Gravitational Waves (Smithsonian; February 11, 2016)
How we know black holes exist (Astronomy; April 2012)
Science Meets Art
How notes from the mothers of astronomy were reclaimed in art (National Geographic; August 2022 print issue)
Putting origami to use in space (Discover; August 27, 2016)
Fold a Paper Robot (Popular Science; November 2015 print issue)
Cosmology
Whisper from the First Stars Sets Off Loud Dark Matter Debate (Quanta Magazine; March 29, 2018)
Finding the Universe's Missing Matter (Discover; September 2017)
How Planck has redefined the universe (Astronomy; October 2013)
Planetary Science
All of the bases of DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites (Science News; April 26, 2022)
Mars has two speeds of sound (Science News; April 11, 2022)
The Moon, Our Lunar Companion (National Geographic special print issue and online; July 5, 2019)
Saturn's Moon Hides Liquid Water (Discover; January/February 2015: The Year in Science, 100 Top Stories of 2014)
Science Policy
Protests halt telescope construction on Hawaiian mountain (Physics World; May 2015 print issue; online April 20, 2015)