Science journalist

Software helps a conservation group see where shade trees will best cool a river. Then the hard work starts. In 2011, the city of Medford in…

Kinetica Dynamics may be a young start-up, but its approach to stabilizing tall buildings is based on a well-established idea.“It’s a reinvigoration of an old vibration…

“We want to become synonymous with good user experience for video,” says Abdul Rehman, co-founder and chief executive of SSIMWave. The start-up, which was spun out…

A little more than 600 million years ago, you could have drunk from the ocean. After an extreme ice age known as snowball Earth, in which…

For crayfish at least, a more sociable life makes booze work quicker. When crayfish were put in water containing a little alcohol, the ones who had…

The first in a series of science videos for kids that I am making with my daughter Ivy. She wanted to know what whales ate, so…