Hal Harris

“Soonish” is a book about the near future, or “near-ish”, anyway. Unlike predictions of what will happen many decades from now, which are inevitably far off the mark, “Soonish” is an attempt to describe technological developments that, while they may not necessarily come to fruition before we all die of a pandemic, at least there have already been

There could not be a better time for an updated, revised edition of Eric Scerri’s “The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction”, because 2019 has been designated the

"The Element in the Room- Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face"

While we were driving through Tennessee recently, we visited the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, the de facto museum of the ambitious WWII project that separated the uranium and plutonium isotopes used in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I recommend that other scientists and science educators make the effort to visi