Space & PhysicsFebruary 28, 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Signals Sea Change in U.S. Spaceflight
An uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station will be a crucial milestone for the company’s grand vision of private spaceflight
Stories by Ned Potter
Ned Potter, a writer from New York City, spent more than 25 years as an ABC News and CBS News correspondent covering science, technology, space and the environment.
Space & PhysicsDecember 20, 2018
Apollo 8, 50 Years Later: The Greater Leap
The first flight to take astronauts around the moon looms larger than the first to land
February 13, 2014
Newton’s Apple: Science and the Value of a Good Story
Search online for any list of history’s greatest scientists and you’ll find the same names: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Louis Pasteur, and so on.
December 30, 2013
Teaching Kids to Love Science, and Falling in Love with the Kids
Put a science writer in a classroom with two-dozen ten-year-olds and I promise you this: the writer will learn more than the kids. I’ve just had that experience, not for the first time but in an especially fulfilling away, while talking about science to a group of fourth and fifth graders at Public School 96 [...]