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Tom Hartsfield
Big Think Contributor
Tom Hartsfield is a PhD physicist. He lives in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Grinding scientists: How mechanochemistry could revolutionize the creation of new materials
Chemists could replace bubbling flasks with tumbling ball mills.
Nobel disease: Why some of the world’s greatest scientists eventually go crazy
It is easy to mock Nobel Laureates who go astray, but eccentricity often accompanies brilliance. We should have some sympathy.
Mayak: The secret nuclear power plant that poisoned Russians for decades
In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.
We’re in a “fog of war” as experts and amateurs rush to replicate superconductor LK-99
An army of replicators belonging to national laboratories, research universities, and amateur garages is rushing to replicate ambient superconductivity in LK-99.
An easy way to solve the problem of garbage in scientific journals
In the land of the double-blind, impartiality is king.
News headlines always boast of scientific breakthroughs. Why do they rarely benefit us?
Science news presents a flood of breakthroughs and discoveries that promise to change our lives. They rarely do.
Plasma and the strange states of matter made of broken atoms
The familiar terrain of solids, liquids, and gases gives way to the exotic realms of plasmas and degenerate matter.