As a physicist with a passion for geological wonders, Iceland's Ring Road has been on my scientific bucket list for years. Last summer, I finally gathered my closest friends (including two fellow scie...
As both a physicist and perpetual explorer, I've learned that the most fascinating discoveries often lie beneath the obvious surface—whether we're talking about subatomic particles or travel destinati...
When I tell colleagues I'm spending my sabbatical in Libya, eyebrows invariably rise. As a physicist accustomed to challenging assumptions, I've discovered that Libya—particularly the corridor from an...
As a physicist accustomed to exploring vast cave systems with my three children, I wasn't expecting much when work sent me to Conway, Arkansas for a week-long conference on educational outreach. Yet t...
When most people envision American wine country, their minds drift to Napa or Sonoma. But as a physicist who's spent decades studying how environmental factors influence molecular structures, I've dis...
When my physics department colleagues heard I was heading to Laos, their first question was invariably, 'Why Vientiane?' Most travelers use this laid-back capital as merely a jumping-off point for Lua...