Science Writing

San Francisco Chronicle: “Downtown S.F.’s office buildings are guzzling tons of energy no one is using”

Nature: “This super-Earth is the first planet confirmed to have a permanent dark side”

Scientific American: “Orion’s Twin Rogue Planets Inexplicably Blaze with Intense Radio Waves”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Scientists say these critical factors will determine how bad California wildfires will be this year”

San Francisco Chronicle: “California’s historic storms continue. Here’s how much scientists say it’s being driven by climate change”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Here’s why the Bay Area has seen bad air quality recently”

San Francisco Chronicle: “California’s groundwater decline is ‘scary’ — but one area bucks the trend”

Nature: “The Higgs boson is caught in a singular transformation”

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: “A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder”

San Jose Mercury News: “Collisions with buildings are killing millions of birds nationwide. A dark-sky movement to save them is sweeping the Bay Area.”

Eos: “Steamy Bubbles May Control Old Faithful’s Clock”

Science: “Garter snakes make friends, organize their society around females”

Mongabay: “Nearly half of the world’s flowering plants face the threat of extinction, study says”

San Francisco Chronicle: “Scientists discover a hidden stash of carbon off California coast”

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: “Researchers aim to make cheaper fuel cells a reality”

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: “Harold Hwang awarded 2024 McGroddy Prize for discovering exotic new materials”

Mental Floss: “9 Explosive Facts About the Manhattan Project”

Scientific American: “Dark Matter Hunters Need Fresh Answers”

Mental Floss: “How Mammoth Poop Is Changing What We Know About Their Extinction”

Gizmodo: “New Dark Matter Theory Says a ‘Dark Big Bang’ Created the Hidden Universe”

Particlebites: “Stretching the limits of dark matter searches with springy detectors”

Particlebites: “A hint of CEvNS heaven at a nuclear reactor”

Astrobites: “Exoplanets are hot right now – will dark matter make them hotter?”