Sidney Perkowitz
Science Writer
Sidney Perkowitz is a science writer and has been Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University. He is the author of Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World (2007) and his latest books are Physics: A Very Short Introduction (2019) and Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties (forthcoming, 2019). He lives in Atlanta.
Written by Sidney Perkowitz
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Earth science and climate
Flash!
It ignited life on Earth, propelled evolution, and now signals climate change. Yet what sparks lightning remains a mystery
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Physics
Can a physics of panic explain the motions of the crowd?
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Future of technology
Crimes of the future
Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyse data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?
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Deep time
Light dawns
Light travels at around 300,000 km per second. Why not faster? Why not slower? A new theory inches us closer to an answer
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Future of technology
Quantum gravity
The most exciting discovery in physics could come about thanks to telecoms satellites. Is a single theory of reality in sight?
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