Portfolio

Samples of my written, audio, and video work, which have appeared in a number of print and online publications, are available below. You can also find samples of my work on my LinkedIn profile.

Writing

I’ve written numerous articles about physics and other scientific fields for publications such as Inside Science, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and the science and culture website io9. For this written work, I pitched, researched, reported, wrote, and edited. 

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Click the links below for samples of my written work. 

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Popular Science

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• In A New State of Matter, Electrons Can Break Into Pieces

• It's Official: Gravitational Waves Have Been Found

• Is Multi-Millionfold Speedup Proof That Google Is Really Quantum Computing?

 

Inside Science

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• The Physics of Tuning Out

• D-Wave Computer's Solution Raises More Questions

• What Stresses Gorilla Glass Makes It Stronger

• Blood's Stretchy Properties



Scientific American

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• Warm Currents: Graphite Powder Stirs Up Hints of Room-Temperature Superconductivity

• Hot and Cold: Long-Suspected Antarctic Undersea Volcanoes Discovered

• Leap Seconds May Hit a Speed Bump



Discover Magazine

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• Older Dads Give Good Telomeres, But Longevity? Not So Much

• Drug Companies Cherry-Pick Data to Get Approval for Useless Drugs

• How Does Male DNA Get Into a Woman's Brain?



io9

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• Amazing videos show nanorods taking shape

• How long ago did we finish domesticating horses?

Podcasts

I've been interested in audio work since I built sound effects for college theater productions. As a freelancer, I pitched, researched, wrote, recorded, and edited podcasts for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. At Popular Science, I helped develop and script the podcast Futuropolis and provided audio as the "voice of the archives."

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Samples of my podcasts are available at the links below. 

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Futuropolis

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• Microgravity Dinners

• Robot You Can Drive My Car

 

60-Second Science

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• Why A Bio-Duck?

• Risky Ripples Allow Eavesdropping On Frisky Frog

• Fake Colon Spills Bacterial Secrets

• ​Silky Micro-Needles Could Make Shots Pain-Free

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Videos

Although I started out by telling science stories through writing and audio, I soon began producing videos. I wrote and hosted The Countdown, a bimonthly space news series on Scientific American's SpaceLab channel. At Popular Science, I produce social videos, cover events like Maker Faire, and develop video franchises such as Rebuild and Build It. 

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Examples of Countdown and Build It videos are embedded below.