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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
Lightspeed champion
22 May 2003
There was a young fellow called Bright…
Light can travel faster than light. Sort of.
New chip flavour
8 May 2003
On the tube
A new type of computer memory uses carbon, rather than silicon.
Technology
tags: microchips, The Economist
What’s the universe made of?
10 April 2003
Seeing in the dark
A new computational model, unveiled at a meeting of the American Physical Society, finds that dark matter in the universe is highly organised.
Plus a box on the structure of the proton. >>
If and only if
3 April 2003
Dream code
Programming languages for quantum computers are now being written
Efficiency in the kitchen
30 March 2003
Some cool ideas
Traditional refrigeration may be eased out with new technologies.
Technology
tags: refrigerators, The Economist
No more secrets
27 March 2003
Primed to go
Mathematicians are discussing ways to make code-breaking easier.
A rumour of war
6 March 2003
Clipping the enemy’s wings
American military technology has moved on a lot since the Gulf war. How precision weapons, improvements in logistics, and other innovations would change the face of a war with Iraq.
The Planck Scale
27 February 2003
The Long and the Short of It
Physicists have worked out how to look at the smallest sizes and shortest time that some of them believe can exist.
Better than fireflies
20 February 2003
An array of good things
Intense light trapped in a tiny fibre should have a bevy of uses.
Taking pictures of a human camera
20 February 2003
In the twinkling of an eye
A way for scientists to get better pictures of the retina.
Universal archaeology
13 February 2003
Just right
The age and composition of the universe have now been established by a NASA satellite.
Lasers and war
30 January 2003
Come fry with me
Experimental electromagnetic weaponry may soon see combat use.
Technology
tags: lasers, The Economist, War, weapons
Physical constants
30 January 2003
The trouble with constants
A review of 2 new books about physical constants by Joao Magueijo and John Barrow.
Book Reviews
tags: The Economist