Stories by Conor Purcell

Conor Purcell is a science journalist who writes on science and its role in society and culture. He has a Ph.D. in Earth science and was the 2019 Journalist in Residence at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany. He can be found on twitter @ConorPPurcell and some of his other articles are at cppurcell.tumblr.com.

Dark Energy

Could Gravity’s Quantum Origins Explain Dark Energy?

A potentially transformative theoretical study links a new model of quantum gravity with the universe’s bizarrely accelerating rate of expansion

October 28, 2021 — Conor Purcell

Climate Change

A Sharper View of the World’s Oceans

Models of the behavior of the oceans with higher spatial resolution could lead to more accurate climate predictions

November 13, 2019 — Conor Purcell and Nature magazine

Space & Physics

Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors Could Find Exoplanets, Too

Although meant to study merging supermassive black holes, the European Space Agency’s LISA mission might also discover hundreds of worlds around white dwarf stars

July 8, 2019 — Conor Purcell