Stories by Shawn Carlson

A Homemade High-Precision Thermometer

Tackling the Triple Point

Tackling the Triple Point

Taking the Earth's Magnetic Pulse

Sorting Molecules with Electricity

Floating a Challenge

Home Movies of an Invisible World

Spooling the Stuff of Life

Building a Consciousness of Streams

A Year for the Oceans

Waiter, there's a Hair in My Hygrometer

Sensing Subtle Tsunamis

Making Experiments out of Thin Air

The Pleasures of Pond Scum

Bird-Watching by the Numbers

A Kitchen Centrifuge

Taking Back the Final Frontier

Caught in a Wind Tunnel

Recording the Sounds of Life

The Lure of Icarus

With new designs and materials, human-powered fliers challenge the distance record