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.
Resume (PDF)
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