Rachel Berkowitz began her science writing career as the founding contributor to Physics Today's 'Down to Earth' column from 2011-2014. After completing her Ph.D. (2013) in geophysics in Cambridge, England, she took a science writing/communications position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She now divides her time between working on an artificial intelligence start-up company, called i2k Connect, and writing for scientific publications based in the US and Europe. Please visit www.rberkowitz.net to learn about current publications and projects.
A much-revered species that represents beauty and elegance in many cultures, the lotus flower has once again risen to fame. This time, researchers at the Tokyo Institute of [...]
Window glass that can tint on demand, in response to the application of an electronic charge, has been available for some time. But many pricey, commercially-available [...]
One challenge of fuel cell technology is developing a cost-effective, easy-to-produce catalyst that aids the splitting of water molecules to produce the hydrogen fuel. Now, [...]
Lithium-air, or lithium-oxygen, batteries have been hailed as the ‘ultimate’ battery due to their theoretical energy density, which is ten times that of the [...]
California’s drought has led the state to accelerate the construction of desalination plants; however, reclaiming seawater is a prohibitively expensive and [...]
