When I was four years old, my pregnant mother drove my sister and me out to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah to visit my father, who worked on the original Fly’s Eye detector for the University of Utah...…
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Nancy Drew
One Saturday morning in the early 1990s, when I was around 8 years old, my father and I kept to our tradition: he, a runner, would jog next to my bike as we wandered through the suburban streets of Murray, Utah. As I became stronger and older, we started exploring farther and farther from home.…
Sprites, TROLLs, ELVES—these are not fairytale beings but real and eerie atmospheric light events tied to thunderstorms, each with names as otherworldly as their appearances. Like the mysterious light-tinged footprints Nancy Drew finds in a moonlit garden, these atmospheric phenomena whisper of hidden processes and rare clues in the otherwise well-lit mystery of lightning.…
In 2023, this “Citizen Science” column focused on distinguishing science from pseudoscience; in 2024, we sought to demystify energy by studying the various flavors of real energy. This year, we’ll further develop our critical thinking skills and sleuthing abilities by looking at outstanding mysteries in physics—what the problem is, why the solution continues to elude us, and what’s been done so far to solve it.…
