Stories by Ben Brubaker

Ben Brubaker is a freelance science journalist whose writing has appeared in Scientific American, Quanta Magazine, and The Conversation, as well as on his blog Measuring in Reflection. He has a PhD in physics from Yale University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Follow him on Twitter.

Cosmology

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web

Data from the CHIME radio observatory are a milestone in the quest to discover the hidden origins of universal structure

May 4, 2022 — Ben Brubaker

Space & Physics

Physicists Measure the Gravitational Force between the Smallest Masses Yet

A laboratory experiment captured the pull between two minuscule gold spheres, paving the way for experiments that probe the quantum nature of gravity

March 10, 2021 — Ben Brubaker