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Tom Siegfried

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Contributing Correspondent at Science News

Contributor at Freelance

Contributing Correspondent, Science News. Advisory Group, Knowable Magazine. Author of The Number of the Heavens, published in September 2019.

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  • Sep 23, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Emily Conover |Nancy Shute |Tom Siegfried

    Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet's changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? Thermodynamics, developed in the 1800s in the context of the Industrial Revolution, describes physics concepts of heat, work and energy (SN: 6/12/24). The field was born from scientific efforts to understand steam engines.

  • Jul 10, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Tom Siegfried |Maria Temming

    Science News has partnered with Trusting News to gather feedback on the potential use of AI in journalism. Currently, we do not publish any content produced by generative AI (see our policy). We do want to hear your views on how Science News could use AI responsibly. Let us know by participating in a short 10 question survey.

  • Jun 12, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Tom Siegfried

    In real life, laws are broken all the time. Besides your everyday criminals, there are scammers and fraudsters, politicians and mobsters, corporations and nations that regard laws as suggestions rather than restrictions. It’s not that way in physics. For centuries, physicists have been identifying laws of nature that are invariably unbreakable. Those laws govern matter, motion, electricity and gravity, and nearly every other known physical process.

  • Sep 8, 2023 | sciencenews.org | Stephen Ornes |Darren Incorvaia |Emily Conover |Tom Siegfried

    Ariel Procaccia has thought a lot about how to cut cake over the last 15 years. That’s partly because the Harvard computer scientist has three children who among them have celebrated more than two dozen birthdays. He knows what it’s like to stand with a knife before a layered masterpiece, frosted with buttercream and chocolate curls, while pressed on all sides by small partygoers who instinctively recognize when someone else gets a better slice.

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Tom Siegfried
Tom Siegfried @tom_siegfried
25 Mar 25

This is my contribution to the @QuantumYear2025 . https://t.co/KV2UKhDXwj

Tom Siegfried
Tom Siegfried @tom_siegfried

For the centennial of quantum mechanics, @KnowableMag relates the history of the electron, with a special appearance by Ben Franklin. https://t.co/KV2UKhDXwj

Tom Siegfried
Tom Siegfried @tom_siegfried
25 Mar 25

For the centennial of quantum mechanics, @KnowableMag relates the history of the electron, with a special appearance by Ben Franklin. https://t.co/KV2UKhDXwj

Tom Siegfried
Tom Siegfried @tom_siegfried
21 Nov 24

String theory fans might like to know that interesting research is still going on, as I summarize for @KnowableMag based on a new paper in the Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. https://t.co/JwlUNAwii7