Science writing
Stories about ghostly neutrinos, the quirks of working in a cleanroom and building a dark matter detector in an underground science facility. For video scripts, scroll to bottom.
Why DUNE? Searching for the origin of matter
Part I in our series exploring the science goals of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Video Scripting
Watch the most recent videos from Sanford Underground Research Facility, scripted and narrated by yours truly.
LUX-ZEPLIN inner detector transported nearly a mile underground
Searching for life deep underground
Dark Matter Day Q&A with LZ Researchers
Majorana Demonstrator tests detectors for LEGEND-200
Road tripping with a germanium detector
Dodging cosmic rays, researchers make a cross-country road trip to from Tennessee to South Dakota
Setting a 'gold standard' for ultra-pure particle detectors
Berkeley Lab's Alan Smith drove the science of measuring radioactivity in experiments’ materials and components
The nuts and bolts of experimental science
To test a theory, collaborations must distill models of universal proportions into tangible nuts and bolts, twisting them into functional machines. This process demands the abstract realm of physics and the practical world of engineering to meet.
Extremophiles that saved the waterways
In the 1970s, Whitlock had a novel idea: develop a strain of cyanide-munching bacteria that could clean Homestake's water before it was released into nearby stream systems.
The experimental art of particle physics
Nicolas Angelides didn’t intend to be a physicist. It was art that first captured his attention. These days, however, he sees very little distinction between the two disciplines.
Anything but abandoned
A thriving gold mine, delving 8,000 feet below a modest mining town with houses crouched on steep hillsides—it’s tempting for writers to create a ghost town of Lead and a decrepit caricature of the Homestake Gold Mine. There’s just one problem, though—this facility is anything but abandoned.
Underground personnel capacity doubles at Sanford Lab
LBNF project upgrades refuge chamber, increases evacuation capabilities
A case study in happy extremophiles
The touchy science behind achieving a pure, thriving culture of methanotrophs
Geothermal group takes their research up a level — to the 4100
SIGMA-V experiment moves 750 feet up to learn more about hot rocks 600 miles away
LZ Time Projection Chamber completed
Collaboration pieces together the 'heart' of LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector
A thunderous idea at the forefront of dark energy research
Gravitational waves likened to a cosmic thunderstorm in an effort to unravel the universe’s strange expansion