Gabriel Popkin

 

Gabriel Popkin has worked for more than 10 years as a freelance science and environmental writer in the Washington, D.C., area with bylines in the New York Times, Washington Post, Science, Nature, and many other outlets. Since July 2023, he has also worked as a science writer for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Links to his work are available at www.gabrielpopkin.com

Tue, 05/28/2024 - 12:02
Putting Einstein to the Test With the World’s Most Accurate Clocks With hopes to someday combine two experiments and put an optical clock in space
Tue, 03/24/2026 - 12:02
You’ve probably heard that time is relative. It sounds like a banal cliche, akin to “time flies when you’re having fun.” But it’s no mere cliche: Time is relative. Though it’s not noticeable in daily life, time passes slightly more slowly when you’…
How Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World We’re all equal players in the unceasing drama of time
Tue, 11/19/2024 - 12:02
Time: We all have a sense of it, an innate feel for it. We see it and use it every day. If you’re like me, the first thing you do in the morning is check the time on your phone to see if you need to get out of bed or if you can close your eyes and…
Finding PFAS Wherever They’re Hiding NIST scientists are helping reveal tiny amounts of ‘forever chemicals’ in our food, water, clothing, and environment
Tue, 05/28/2024 - 12:02
They’re called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds that contain a chemical bond between fluorine and carbon. That bond has proved to be one of the most stable and unbreakable known to chemistry—a fact…