Eric Smalley
is a founding editor of Technology Research News. He has written about technology since 1987 and has freelanced for many publications including Discover, Scientific American, Wired News, Nature Reports: Climate Change, Nature Network Boston, The Boston Globe, Computerworld, CIO, Datamation, and InfoWorld.
He has served as Deputy News Editor at Digital Review, a Senior Editor at Network World, and a Senior Editor at PC Week.

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Recent freelance stories:

Climate Engineering Is Doable, as Long as We Never Stop

Wired News, July 25, 2007


Ice-cold hotspots
Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007

Carbon export overestimated
Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007

Sheet stability
Nature Reports Climate Change, July 2007

Amazonian methane bursts
Nature Reports Climate Change, July 2007


Fruiting fungi

Nature Reports Climate Change, June 2007

Twilight zone transport
Nature Reports Climate Change, June 2007

A mechanical view of biology gains ground
Boston researchers are delving into the physical forces at work in the cell and building a new field along the way.
Nature Network Boston, May 10, 2007

Synthetic biology gets down to business
Engineered cells and organisms could soon become the tools of the pharmaceutical and energy industries.
Nature Network Boston, March 7, 2007

Quantum engineer
Seth Lloyd of MIT turns atoms into computers and thinks about how to program the universe.
Nature Network Boston, December 11, 2006

Physicist turned technologist
After leaving a promising career in particle physics, Joe Paradiso of MIT’s Media Lab is helping to usher in a new era of computing.
Nature Network Boston, November 6, 2006

A field of its own
MIT’s Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, talks about why we need a new discipline to study it.
Nature Network Boston, November 3, 2006

Doctor as nano engineer
MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia draws on her engineering and medical training to develop high-tech tools for tackling cancer.
Nature Network Boston, September 6, 2006

Warm Watts for Wireless

Wired News, May 15, 2006

Light Work
Better solar nanotubes to split water for hydrogen
Scientific American, May 2006

Face Reader Bridges Autism Gap
Wired News, April 14, 2006

Recent TRN stories:

Cell combo yields blood vessels

Light clock promises finer time

Bank transfer demos quantum crypto


Recent TRN briefs:

Goals tame home electronics

Infectious antivirus protection


DNA delivers anti-cancer drug