Writing
Copy in national and international publications including BBC Sky At Night Magazine and Times Higher Education
Web articles including at Planet Science and physicsworld.com
Entries in the Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer Awards in the final 50 in 2007 and 2008
Blogger at Just a Theory (3 most recent posts syndicated below)
- Yesterday details emerged that China has selected its next generation of astronauts; a crew of five men and two women. However, to be one of those two women, recruiters demanded a rather unusual qualification, motherhood.
The Chinese space programme is known to be stringent in its selection of potential astronauts; even bad breath can shatter your [...] - The devastating earthquake which struck Chile on February 27th may well have had an effect on the rotation of the Earth itself according to a NASA scientist. Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has used computer models to calculate that our day is now about 1.26 microseconds shorter than it was on February 26th.
A [...] - The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), in partnership with the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Zooniverse are launching Solar Stormwatch, a new web project where anyone can help spot and track solar storms and be involved in the latest solar research.
The Sun is much more dynamic than it appears in our sky. Intense magnetic fields churn [...]
