Articles written by Mike Perricone

A big discrepancy between the decay behavior of matter and antimatter brings scientists closer to a clear view of why the universe is what it is.

May 19, 2010 - Mike Perricone

Researchers at two leading U.S. universities have developed new battery technologies that could help change the way hybrid and electric vehicles are built.

Apr 7, 2010 - Mike Perricone

The New York Times, Newsweek and The New Yorker present a startling mix of poor reporting, dubious logic and questionable science.

Mar 24, 2010 - Mike Perricone

The stunning death of their daughter leads Roger and Mimi Rosenblatt on a journey to create a new family structure.

Mar 21, 2010 - Mike Perricone

Depending on his family as the pillars of his life, a Texas death-penalty lawyer struggles to maintain hope when almost every day ends in defeat.

Mar 10, 2010 - Mike Perricone

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Mar 4, 2010 - Mike Perricone

Despite its historic leadership in the field, the U.S. is handing over the top spot in the exotic realm of particle physics to a massive new machine Europe.

Feb 6, 2010 - Mike Perricone

A physics professor teams up with his precocious floppy-eared shepherd mix, Emmy, to collar the quantum concepts that even Einstein found difficult to accept.

Jan 26, 2010 - Mike Perricone

An astrophysicist leads an exploration of just about everything you'll need to know to understand the coming discoveries about the dark side of the universe.

Dec 22, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Murder and mayhem join with ghosts and witchcraft to challenge Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police across immense, arid Reservation land in the American Southwest.

Dec 15, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Some basic science goes a long way in science fiction movies, but science has to run amok to provide a decent doomsday scenario.

Dec 10, 2009 - Mike Perricone

The Navajo Tribal Policeman Jim Chee faces a constant clash between investigating crimes and trying to live "The Navajo Way."

Dec 4, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Nuclear energy is an idea whose time has come again. Or has it? Veteran nuclear researcher James Mahaffey makes the case for an atomic solution to energy concerns.

Dec 1, 2009 - Mike Perricone

A former track star offers a novel with unique insights into the over-the edge mind and body experiences of exhaustive training and the peak experience of the race.

Nov 19, 2009 - Mike Perricone

An unsung heroine of astronomy finally receives well-deserved credit for her tireless work and momentous results.

Nov 14, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Cheating in sports is as old as sports, but using performance-enhancing drugs like steroids can tragically up the ante.

Nov 14, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Before "industrialized" science, scientists worked on their own to pose questions to the universe, and they persisted until the universe gave them an answer.

Nov 7, 2009 - Mike Perricone

Physics professor and author Hans Ohanian says Einstein's work was fraught with errors in the details, but his thinking was still decades ahead of all his contemporaries.

Oct 31, 2009 - Mike Perricone

U.S. Global Change Research Program shows evaporation is dominating other effects of higher temperatures, challenging the future of a huge fresh-water supply.

Jul 1, 2009 - Mike Perricone

In "Active Liberty," Justice Stephen Breyer contrasts the "modern" liberty of freedom from government, with the "ancient/active" liberty to participate in government.

Jun 6, 2009 - Mike Perricone

The fear of oil shortages has afflicted the West with crises of its own making, but Leonardo Maugeri analyzes the wrong future with little focus on global warming.

May 27, 2009 - Mike Perricone

The National Hockey League made history in 2004-2005 as the first league to cancel an entire season in a labor dispute. The gamble is paying off in hard economic times.

May 13, 2009 - Mike Perricone

In "American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau" editor Bill McKibben combines the familiar with the unfamiliar to arouse inspiration, awe, alarm and sadness.

Nov 18, 2008 - Mike Perricone

Fermilab's Tevatron is trying to make more scientific news before Europe's huge Large Hadron Collider completes repairs and begins operations again in the Spring of 2009.

Nov 10, 2008 - Mike Perricone

From terrorism to space exploration, from global warming to energy policy, the nation's new Chief Executive must know the science behind the headlines in every crisis.

Oct 27, 2008 - Mike Perricone