Books
The Day We Lost the H-bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History. New York: Random House, 2009.
Selected Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Why Do We Avoid The Doctor? Boston Globe Magazine, December 10, 2017
Clamshells and Climate Change. BU Research, November, 2017
Can We Still Find Our Way Without GPS? Boston Globe Magazine, August 13, 2017
Cape Cod’s Big Drinking Water Problem. Boston Globe Magazine, August 7, 2016
When Earth Speaks to Sky. BU Research, August 7, 2016
Too Smart Car. Boston Globe Magazine, June 26, 2016
The Other End of the River. Bostonia, summer, 2016
Ants and Alzheimer’s. Bostonia, summer, 2016
Not Just a Death, a System Failure. The New York Times, February 7, 2016
Every Cell Has a Story. BU Research, January 2016
Will US ever Be Able to clean up Spanish Coast? PRI The World, October 21, 2015
Lessons from Teo. Bostonia, Fall 2015
Five Thousand Heads are Better Than One. BU Research, June, 2015
Truths and Half-Truths. BU Today, April 15, 2015
The Physician Assistant Will See You. The New York Times, August 1, 2014
Is Butter Really Back? The Harvard Public Health Review, Fall-Winter 2014
How to Get an A- in Organic Chemistry. The New York Times, November 3, 2013.
The Nuclear Option. Boston Globe Magazine, September 22, 2013.
Rude Awakenings. Bostonia, Fall 2013.
Out of Sorts. Boston Globe Magazine, July 14, 2013.
EPA Investigating Toxic Laundry Emissions. C-HIT / Hartford Courant, Nov 20, 2012
Why We are Fat. Bostonia, Winter-Spring, 2012.
West Haven Company on Toxic Waste Watch List. C-HIT, March 12, 2012.
The Unstoppable Mr. McKibben. Boston Globe Magazine, January 15, 2012.
Down the Rabbit Hole. The Columbia Journalism Review, May-June 2010.
Power Politics. Boston Globe Magazine, May 9, 2010.
A Conversation with Dean Kamen. Boston Globe Magazine, November 18, 2007.
Artificial Turf and How it Grew. Invention & Technology Magazine, Spring 2005.
Vigilantes on the Net. New Scientist, June 12, 2004.
She explores the world of language and thought. Boston Globe, November 18, 2003.
Physicist tackles questions of tiny dimensions. Boston Globe, October 28, 2003.
Dinner Goes to War. Invention & Technology Magazine, Summer 1998.
The Preacher Who Beat Eastman Kodak. Invention & Technology Magazine, Fall 2001.
Scientists re-create dry season to learn why rainforests burn. Boston Globe, February 15, 2000.
A Bridge That Didn’t Collapse. Invention & Technology Magazine, Fall 1999.
Robots on All Twos. Technology Review, November/December 1996.
Back to Basics. New Scientist, September 7, 1996.