Clara Moskowitz is chief of reporters at Scientific American, where she covers astronomy, space, physics and mathematics. She has been at Scientific American for more than a decade; previously she worked at Space.com. Moskowitz has reported live from rocket launches, space shuttle liftoffs and landings, suborbital spaceflight training, mountaintop observatories, and more. She has a bachelor’s degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University and a graduate degree in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Star-Forming Clouds May Spit Out Life’s Building Blocks
Astronomers have discovered one of the largest and most complex organic molecules yet in a gaseous star-forming region of interstellar space. Clara Moskowitz reports
Physics Nobel Honors Energy-Saving Lightbulbs
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura won the 2014 physics prize for the invention of the blue light–emitting diode
New Particle Is Both Matter and Antimatter
Researchers see signature of “Majorana particles” inside superconducting iron
Asteroid Families Traced Back to the Collisions That Spawned Them
Space rocks tend to stick with their own kind
Book Review: WTF, Evolution?!
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Big Bang Gravitational Waves: True or Not?
New results this fall should clarify whether the BICEP2 experiment has really found primordial gravitational waves
Book Review: Your Atomic Self
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Not-So-Intelligent Design: Evolution’s Worst Ideas
An interview with the author of WTF Evolution?, a book and blog on the oddities of nature
Dark Matter Looks WIMPy
Data from the International Space Station-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment supports the idea that dark matter consists of the invisible particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. Clara Moskowitz reports
Betting Against Gravitational Waves: Q&A with Cosmologist Neil Turok
Failure to discover primordial spacetime ripples could open the way for a physicist’s alternative theory
Quantum Entanglement Creates New State of Matter
Half a million ultracold atoms were linked together in the first-ever “macroscopic spin singlet” state
Gravitational Wave Discovery Looks Doubtful in New Analysis
The latest data from the Planck satellite suggest the highly touted finding of spacetime ripples may have been mistaken
Spacecraft Investigates What Happened to Mars’ Atmosphere
NASA’s MAVEN orbiter arrived at Mars to study how gas escapes from around the planet
Hubble Telescope Time Preferentially Goes to Men
An internal study finds that female-led proposals to use the in-demand device are less likely to be selected
Wanted by NASA: Space Telescope Director with Spy Credentials
The leader of the James Webb Space Telescope must have clearance that allows access to the highest level of classified information, according to a NASA want ad
Forensic Astronomer Dates Monet Vision
Texas State University astronomer Donald Olson combined solar, tidal and weather data to identify the likely moment of the image in the Monet work Impression, Sunrise
Milky Way's Home Supercluster Found
Astronomers have identified the Milky Way’s cosmic address—inside the supercluster Laniakea, which means “immense heaven” in Hawaiian. Clara Moskowitz reports
Female Physicists Worldwide Fight Sexist Stereotypes
Women in physics tend to be outnumbered by men nearly all over the world. For a few days in early August, however, it didn't feel that way when I attended the International Conference on Women in Physics in Waterloo, Canada.
Book Review: What If?
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Book Review: The Marshmallow Test
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How the Iconic Pillars of Creation Arose
A new simulation could change the way astronomers think about O-stars
Book Review: Shocked
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Book Review: The Edge of the Sky
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Strange Neutrinos from the Sun Detected for the First Time
An underground neutrino detector has found particles produced by the fusion of two protons in the sun’s core