Eric lives in Boston with his wife, journalist and user interface/usability expert Kim Patch. Eric and Kim are founding members of their neighborhood green group, GreeningRozzie, and play in Creek River String Band. In addition to music, Eric is into reading, writing, cooking, traveling, birdwatching, the great outdoors, movies, science, history, art, technology, fresh ale and good conversation.
About Eric Smalley

Brief bio

Eric Smalley is founder of Energy Research News and cofounder of Technology Research News.

He has written about science and 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 served as Deputy News Editor at Digital Review, a Senior Editor at Network World, and a Senior Editor at PC Week.

Resume (PDF)

Writing

Energy Research News: www.ernmag.com
  Selected ERN news briefs:
"Schooled" wind turbines perform better
Wave turbine takes wing
Nanoparticles promise superfast batteries
  Selected ERN blog posts:
A call for scientists to call on citizens
Geoengineering research: curb your enthusiasm
Personalized energy
  Selected ERN interviews:
Energy in transition:
researchers talk about Obama and our future
Penn State's Craig Grimes
UNSW's Martin Green
Technology Research News: www.trnmag.com
  Selected TRN news stories:
Cell combo yields blood vessels
Machine reproduces itself
Integrated biochips debut
  Selected TRN features:
Can nanotech beat cancer?
Nano cancer drugs move to the next level: humans
  Selected TRN interviews:
Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
NYU's Nadrian Seeman
ICL's John Pendry

Freelance:

Obama Spurs Us On In Clean Energy Race
Wired News, October 23, 2009

Ice-cold hotspots
Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007

Carbon export overestimated
Nature Reports Climate Change, August 2007

Climate Engineering Is Doable, as Long as We Never Stop
Wired News, July 25, 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

Future Tech: Faking Intelligence
Discover, August, 2002

Future Tech: Hack-Proof Chatting
Discover, May, 2002

The walls have eyes -- and ears and...
The Boston Globe, July 20, 1998