Charlie Wood
Charlie Wood is a freelance journalist covering physical sciences both on and off this pale blue dot. He contributes to Space.com and LiveScience, as well as Popular Science, Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, and others. These days he writes from New York but in previous lives he taught physics in Mozambique and science English in Japan. Find him on Twitter @walkingthedot.
Latest articles by Charlie Wood
What is gravity?
By Charlie Wood last updated
Reference Gravity can be described in a variety of ways. Here's how Newton and Einstein took gravity from an observation to a measurable phenomenon.
White holes: What we know about black holes' neglected twins
By Charlie Wood last updated
Reference White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that are opposite to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole.
What is string theory?
By Charlie Wood, Vicky Stein last updated
Reference String theory is the idea in theoretical physics that reality is made up of infinitesimal vibrating strings, smaller than atoms, electrons or quarks.
SOFIA: NASA's prematurely canceled airborne telescope that left a gap behind
By Tereza Pultarova last updated
Reference SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, was a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 SP aircraft that studied infrared light, essentially heat, emitted by objects in the universe.
Mysterious flashes of radio light come in two 'flavors,' new survey finds
By Charlie Wood published
Astronomers have tracked 500 fast radio bursts to their locations in the sky, and found they come in two flavors.
Physicists get close to taming the chaos of the 'three-body problem'
By Charlie Wood published
The intractable "three-body problem" gets closer to being solved with breakthrough study.
Kathryn Sullivan: Spacewalker and Earth Explorer
By Charlie Wood published
Few know the globe's nooks and crannies more intimately than Kathryn Sullivan — explorer and student of the sky and the sea.
SpaceIL's Beresheet Lunar Lander: Israel's 1st Trip to the Moon
By Charlie Wood published
Going to the moon is hard, and Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL is one of a handful of organizations that knows exactly how hard.
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