Clip File: News Explainers

Another day, another handful of Forbes pieces moved here for ad-free archiving. This is a sampling of pieces explaining physics stories that made news for one reason or another (two are about Nobel prizes, three not).

How [2016]’s Nobel Laureates In Physics Changed The Game

The ALPHA Experiment Records Another First In Measuring Antihydrogen

Nobel Prize In Physics 2018: How To Make Ultra-Intense Ultra-Short Laser Pulses

How Does The ‘Shape’ Of An Electron Limit Particle Physics?

Three Hundred And Fifty Years Of Testing Gravity With Clocks: Einstein, Popper, And Jean Richer At The Tokyo Skytree

I used to do more of this kind of thing, but they’re kind of a lot of work often for little reward (in terms of reader engagement), so I tend to do them only when I’m 1) not very busy, and 2) it connects to my other interests in some way that makes it rewarding to write in spite of the low traffic. You can see that in the above, where a couple of these are very explicitly filling in gaps in other coverage of the same stories.