Publications - David Appell

2008

• "Dark Forces at Work," Scientific American, May 2008, p. 100-102.
• "Discovering a Dark Universe: A Q&A with Saul Perlmutter," SciAm.com, May 2008
• "A Solar Big Gulp," SciAm.com, Sept. 2008
• "No Safe Level?" Skeptical Inquirer, Sept./Oct. 2008.
• "In a globalized world, I'm just too big to fail," Oregonian, Sept. 25, 2008.

• "Repairs without Rivets," Scientific American, November 2007, p. 21.
• "Toxic Bulbs," Scientific American, October 2007, p. 30.

2006

• "A long row to recovery," Portland Tribune, July 11, 2006.
• "Easing Jitters When Buildings Rumble," Scientific American, Jan. 2006.
• "Line of Fire," Cosmos, Jan. 2006/Dec. 2005, pp. 78-81.

2005

• "Maine Law Requires Drug Companies To Provide Clinical Trial Data," Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2005; 97: 1246.
• "Cutting Your 20 Tons," Northern Sky News, Sept. 2005, p. 14.
• "Bush and company blinded by pseudoscience" (book review of The Republican War on Science), San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 4, 2005.
  • reprinted in Northern Sky News, Oct, 2005, p. 14.
• "Kunstler on the Hard, Oil-less Days Ahead," Northern Sky News, July 2005, p. 14.
• "McKibben's Hopeful Walk," Northern Sky News, June 2005, p. 14.
• "Behind the Hockey Stick," Scientific American, March 2005.

2004

• "Father of Spirit and Opportunity," Scientific American, October 2004, pp. 44-46.
• "US campaign trail takes to the net," New Scientist, August 21, 2004, p. 24.
• "Martian Dust Devils," The Weather Notebook, August 24, 2004.
• "The Darkening Earth," Scientific American, August 2004.
• "Cirrus Warming," The Weather Notebook, July 6, 2004.
• "SAXS Studies Reveal Metals in the Jaws of Marine Worms," APS (Advanced Photon Science) 2003, pp. 59-60.
• "Phase Transitions in Suspensions of Colloidal FD Virus," APS (Advanced Photon Science) 2003, p. 48.
• "Unusual Structure in Thin Alkane Films," APS (Advanced Photon Science) 2003, pp. 46-47.
• "Methuselah Man," Technology Review, April 9, 2004.
• "Shattered Glass," Scientific American, April 2004, pp. 30-32.
• "Grain of Salt," script for The Weather Notebook, April 6, 2004.
• "Dream Machine," Scientific American, March 2004, pp. 18-20.
• "Sheep Burps," The Weather Notebook, March 9, 2004.
• "Democratic Hopefuls Hear Climate Change Concerns," Northern Sky News, February 2004.
• "GCC Warming Oceans," The Weather Notebook, January 13, 2004.
• "New Hampshire Nixes Water Plant," Northern Sky News, January 2004, p. 4.
• "Betting on the Weather," The Weather Notebook, January 5, 2004.

2003

• "If We're Rich, Why Aren't We Happy," book review of "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse" by Gregg Easterbrook, San Francisco Chronicle, December 28, 2003.
• "Arcade Games and Climate Change," Northern Sky News , December 2003.
• "High Prize for Low Temperatures," Scientific American, December 2003, p. 42.
• "Feedback effects," The Weather Notebook, November 18, 2003.
• "Intelligent tags are breaking the ice," New Scientist, November 12, 2003.
• "Power Struggle: How business and technology collided to electrify America" (review of Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes), San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 2003.
• "Future Food," The Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2003, pp. 61-65.
• "book review of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age," by Bill McKibben, BetterHumans.com, July 21, 2003.
• "Hot Words: A claim of nonhuman-induced global warming sparks debate," Scientific American, June 24, 2003 (Web) and August 2003 (print), pp. 20-22.
• "Democracy in a Decade," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2003.
• "Pocket-sized Fuel Cells," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2003.
• "Sand Dollars," University of New Hampshire Magazine , Spring 2003.
• "Acting Locally," Scientific American, June 2003, p. 20.
• "Process Triggered by Some Anti-Cancer Drugs Causes Tumors in Mice, Study Finds," Whitehead Institute News, April 17, 2003.
• "Why GM Food Could Start a Trade War," Wired, May 2003, p. 35.
• "Mice Work If You Can Get It," Next Wave (AAAS), April 4, 2003.
• "Science to Save the World: Economist Jeffrey Sachs," Scientific American, January 2003, pp. 36-37.
• "Getting Under Your Skin," Scientific American, January 2003, p. 18-20.
• "Test for Primes Menaces Internet," Discover, January 2003, p. 61.

2002

• "Connecting the Dots: Gene Stanley Applies the Laws of Physics in Surprising Ways," Boston University Arts & Sciences , Fall 2002, pp. 13-15.
• "The Uncertainty Principle: A UNH professor speaks about his famous father," University of New Hampshire Magazine , Fall 2002, p. 16.
• "Scientists Produce the Script for Life," Whitehead Institute News, October 24, 2002.
• "The Cost of Kyoto," The Weather Notebook, October 15, 2002.
• "Nanotechnology: Wired for success," Nature , Oct. 10, 2002, p. 553.
• "Math = beauty + truth / (really hard)," Salon, September 5, 2002.
• background material for the MiniBooNE neutrino experiment at Fermilab:
  • Neutrinos and Neutrino Oscillations
  • How MiniBooNE Works
  • The Importance of MiniBooNE
• "Ground Below Zero," Scientific American, July 2002.
• "Will knowing the genetic roots of mental illness increase stigma?" Psychology Today, July/August 2002, p. 20.
• "Electromagnetic signals can predict earthquakes," New Scientist, June 15, 2002, p. 12.
• "The Next Newton?" Salon, May 15, 2002.
• "The Nature of the Neutrino," Columbia Magazine, Spring 2002.
• "When Markets Go Mad," Scientific American, May 2002, p. 28.
• "Maine Hosts Solar System," Science, April 12, 2002, p. 253.
• "Storms and Asthma," radio script for The Weather Notebook, March 20, 2002.
• "Aspirations in Science and Civics," Scientific American, March 2002, p. 38.

2001

• "Recipe for the Unspeakable," Scientific American, Nov. 2001, p. 15.
• "Space stories soar: New books mix cultural and technological analysis," The Portland Tribune, Nov. 30, 2001, p. C6.
• "What's Up? How High Can Buildings Go?" with Hugh Westrup, Current Science, Oct. 26, 2001.
• "High as a Kite," Current Science, Oct. 12, 2001, p. 10.
• "Master of the Universe," Current Science, Sept. 14, 2001, p. 10.
• "Pulp Non-fiction," Travel Holiday, Sept. 2001, p. 44.
• "White Caps," radio script for The Weather Notebook, August 24, 2001.
• "Celestial Swingers," New Scientist, August 1, 2001, p. 36.
• "Committed to Warming," radio script for The Weather Notebook, July 26, 2001.
• "Look for effects of climate change in our own New England back yards," Natural New England, July/August 2001, p. 24.
• "Seeing Stars With Digital Eyes," IEEE Spectrum, July 2001, p. 62.
• "It Ain't Necessarily So," by David Murray, et al. (book review) , Salon, July 2, 2001.
• ""Water, Water. . . Nowhere?" University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2001, p. 32.
• "A Sharper Image," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Spring 2001, p. 10.
• Mars: a planet of myth and surprise, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-7621-0320-5.
• film treatment on "Visions of the Future: The Next 1000 Years" for Palfreman Film Group, Lowell, MA.
• "Who wants to be a math millionaire?" Boston Globe, March 27, 2001, p. C1.
  • Reprinted as "Million-Dollar Contest Creates a Million Headaches," in ScienceWriters, The Newsletter of the National Association of Science Writers, Summer 2001, p. 10.
• The Big Bang: Birth of the Universe," with Charles Flowers, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-7621-0317-5.
• "The New Uncertainty Principle," Scientific American, January 2001, pp. 18-19.
• "The Mystery of the Missing Mass," Current Science, January 5, 2001, pp. 10-11.
• Comets: blazing visitors from deep space , The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-7621-0313-2.

2000

• "Megabyte Matchmakers," University of New Hampshire Magazine, Fall 2000, p. 22-27.
• film treatment on "Genetic Migration" for Palfreman Film Group, Lowell, MA.
• "Unlimited Light," Scientific American, September 2000, p. 26.
• "On Golden Pond: No Trespassing," Audubon, July-August 2000, p. 22.
• "Little Bang?" Popular Science, June 2000, p. 25.
• "Sapping Sugar Through Skin," Popular Science, June 2000, p. 40.
• "Liquid crystals perform as fast optomechanical switches," OE Reports, May 2000.
• "Optical polymers heat and greet," OE Reports, May 2000.
• "Photorefractive polymer exhibits fast response time," OE Reports, May 2000.
• "The Pot Gets Hotter than the Stove," Physical Review Focus, 25 April 2000.
• "Mirrors in Space," radio script for The Weather Notebook, February 7, 2000.

1999

• "What Made the Rockies?" Current Science, December 3, 1999, p. 9.
• "Speaking Up for Science," Scientific American, November 1999, p.22.
• "The Latest Buzz," radio script for The Weather Notebook, November 8, 1999.
• film narratives on Great Experiments, for Palfreman Film Group, Lowell, MA.
• "New Role$ for Mice in Clinical Trials," HMS Beagle, Issue 62, September 17-30, 1999.
• "The Green Flash," radio script for The Weather Notebook, September 29, 1999.
• "Raging Ball," Current Science, September 24, 1999, p. 10.
• "Out of the Darkness," Current Science, September 10, 1999, p. 10.
• "A Large Moon Rising," radio script for The Weather Notebook, September 10, 1999.
• "Electrical engineering: hot spot for all," Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology, Summer/Fall 1999, p. 76.
• "Solar Storms," radio script for The Weather Notebook, August 12, 1999.
• "The Posticheur," InterText, Volume 9, Number 4, July-August 1999.
• "The Dark Side of Gravity," Science, July 2, 1999, p. 39.
• "Premelt," radio script for The Weather Notebook, June 14, 1999.
• "The White Mountain National Park?" Appalachian Trailway News, May/June 1999, p. 17.
• "Of Dumbbells and Doughnuts," New Scientist, May 1, 1999, p. 35.
• "Sloshing Seiches," radio script for The Weather Notebook, April 19, 1999.
• "The de Broglie Wavelength of a Wave Packet," Physical Review Focus, April 8, 1999.
• "The Mysteries of Melting," Physical Review Focus, March 24, 1999.
• "When a Liquid Is Not a Liquid," Physical Review Focus, March 16, 1999.
• "Fire in the Sky," New Scientist, February 27, 1999, p. 29.
• "Nuclear Oddball," ScienceNow, February 23, 1999.
• "Living Walls," Audubon, January/February 1999, p. 72.

1998

• "Baby Glenn," The Seattle Review, Volume XX, Number 1, 1998.
• Reprinted in InterText , Vol. 9, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1999.
• "Slow-Moving Glass," Popular Science, September 1998, p. 28.
• "Quake and Bake," Popular Science, September 1998, p. 28.
• "Unique Ring Captured by Magnetism Orbits Jupiter," StarDate , July/August 1998, p. 21.
• "Laser cooling traps the Nobel Prize," Laser Focus World, January 1998, p. 103.
• "New Spacecraft Opens Window Into the Sun," Discovery Channel Online, June 1, 1998.
• "Study: Auroras Like to Flirt with Coastlines," Discovery Channel Online, May 29, 1998.
• "Scientists Detect Massive Solar Quake," Discovery Channel Online , May 28, 1998.
• "Crater, Mineral on Mars Hint at Life," Discovery Channel Online , May 28, 1998.
• "High Anxieties," Backpacker, Apr. 1998, p. 18.
• contributor to World of Invention, 2nd edition, World of Scientific Discovery, 2nd edition, and Discovering Science (Gale Student Resource Center), Gale Research, Detroit, MI.
• "Clad fiber detects biological agents fast," Laser Focus World, Apr. 1998, p. 26.
• "Capillary cryostat aids attomole-level analysis," Laser Focus World, Apr. 1998, p. 44.
• "Mountaintop antenna tower" (photograph), Backpacker, April 1998, pp. 9 and 18.
• "High-power laser beam launches fuel-less craft," Laser Focus World, Mar. 1998, p. 90.
• "Shuttle laser to measure atmospheric winds," Laser Focus World, Mar. 1998, p. 28.
• "Fiberoptic chloride sensors monitor Vermont bridge," Laser Focus World, Mar. 1998, p. 45.
• "High-power laser peening strengthens metal," Laser Focus World, Feb. 1998, p. 40.
• "Lasing threads code fabrics," Laser Focus World, Jan. 1998, p. 16.
• "Simple silicate displays photoluminescence," Laser Focus World, Jan. 1998, p. 48.

1997

• "Shuttle Laser to Measure Winds," Laser Report, Dec. 1, 1997, p. 4.
• "Lambda Physik, LAS Enter Alliance," Laser Report, Dec. 1, 1997, p. 8.
• "Laser-Powered Projectile Flies 14 Feet," Laser Report, Nov. 1, 1997, p. 2.
• "MIRACL Test Gets Mixed Reviews," Laser Report, Nov. 1, 1997, p. 5.
• "Nobel Prize Awarded for Laser Cooling," Laser Report, Nov. 1, 1997, p. 7.
• "Military may test powerful laser in space," Laser Focus World, Nov. 1997, p. 20.
• "Hubble reveals warped disk around black hole," Laser Focus World, Nov. 1997, p. 44.
• "Financial Scoreboard: Coherent Results Disappoint Investors," Laser Report, Nov. 15, 1997, p.1.
• "Extreme-UV-Lithography CRADA Questioned," Optoelectronics Report, Nov.15, 1997, p. 1.
• "Act to Streamline Federal Technology Licensing," Optoelectronics Report, Nov. 15, 1997, p. 3.
• "Cassini mission to explore the Saturnian realm," Laser Focus World, Oct. 1997, p. 15.
• "Real-time terahertz imaging captures living tissue," Laser Focus World, Oct. 1997, p. 16.
• "Lithography market challenges manufacturers," Marketwatch column with Laurie Peach, Laser Focus World, Oct. 1997, p. 75.
• "Antisatellite Test Near Decision Point," Laser Report, Oct. 1, 1997, p. 2
• "ESI Reports Record Earnings," Laser Report, Oct. 1, 1997, p. 3.
• "Some RVSI Patent Claims Dismissed," Laser Report, Oct. 1, 1997, p. 6.
• "Laser System to Clear the Fog of War," Laser Report, Sept. 1, 1997, p. 6.
• "Optical pumping improves laser output," Laser Focus World, Sept. 1997, p. 18.
• "Sojourner senses surface of Mars," Laser Focus World, Aug. 1997, p. 20.
• "Universal Display Demonstrates Organic LED," Optoelectronics Report, July 15, 1997, p. 2.
• "McAfee Knob" (photograph), Seven Days , June 18, 1997.
• "Beryllium: No Longer Just Ballistic," The Industrial Physicist, June 1997.
• "Copyright Protection Law Proposed for the Internet," Poets & Writers, May/June 1997.
• "The Compute Walker," Appalachian Trailway News, May/June 1997.
• "Have keg, will travel," Backpacker, p. 14, May 1997.
• "Dugan to Selectboard: The Tax Man Cometh," Williston Whistle , May 22, 1997.
• "Selectboard Votes to Curtail Retail Development," Williston Whistle, April 3, 1997.
• "Street-Name Changes Concern Residents," Williston Whistle , April 3, 1997.
• "Understanding Green," InterText, Vol. 7, No. 2, March-April 1997.
• "Sidewalk Committee Ready to Draw the Line," Williston Whistle , March 13, 1997.
• "Sanburg to Focus on Police, Ambulance Service," Williston Whistle , March 13, 1997.
• "Vieth Will Seek to Control Growth," Williston Whistle , March 13, 1997.
• "Signs of Things to Come," Williston Whistle , February 13, 1997.
• "Antennas, Lighting, and Signs: Planners Deal with Growth," Williston Whistle, February 6, 1997.
• "Eat the Rich, Feed the Poor" (photograph), Seven Days, February 5, 1997.
• "Planning Commission Sees the Light," Williston Whistle , January 30, 1997.
• "New School in Town -- Ribbon-cutting ceremony marks official opening of Allen Brook," Williston Whistle, January 23, 1997.
• "If you can't beat winter, enjoy it," The Burlington Free Press, January 13, 1997.
• "It’s Moving Day -- WCS Students, Teachers Pack for Allen Brook," Williston Whistle, January 9, 1997.
• "The Year 2000: Software Hits the Wall," Internet World, January 1997, p. 68.

1996

• "What I really saw," in The Appalachian Trail Reader, David Emblidge, ed., Oxford University Press, 1996.
• "Blood," Sycamore Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer/Fall 1996.
• "Earthquakes, Critics and the 600 Nitro: An Interview with T. Coraghessan Boyle," Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue 18, Spring/Summer 1996.
• "Bobby, Pete and I," Kudzu, Issue 96/1, Spring 1996.
• "Organizations Meet Threats, Opportunities of Information Age," Poets & Writers, March/April 1996.
• "Publishing on the Web," AWP Chronicle, Feb. 1996.
• "'Indecency' Attack on Internet," The Phoenix Gazette, Feb. 1, 1996.
• "Summer Evenings," in Mudville Diaries: A Book of Baseball Memories, Mike Schacht, ed., Avon Books, 1996.
• "Amazed By Her Beauty," Morpo Review, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Feb. 1996.
• "In Gravity's Shadow," The Blue Penny Quarterly, Issue 7, 1996.

1995

• "Deliver Me From Nowhere," Planet Magazine, No. 25, Dec. 6, 1995.
• "Congress May Give Copyrights Longer Life," Poets & Writers, Nov./Dec. 1995.
• "Open a window to the sounds of fall," The Phoenix Gazette, Nov. 2, 1995.
• "Telecom Man," Internet World, Sept. 1995, p.56.
• "Internet users doggedly finding a voice," The Phoenix Gazette, August 17, 1995.
• "Blueblazing the Internet," Appalachian Trailway News, July/Aug. 1995.
• "My Tax Dollars at Work," Kudzu, Issue 95/2, Summer 1995.
• "Sanguillen Summer," Fan Magazine, No. 19, Summer 1995.
• "The Brave New Internet," Metro, Santa Clara Valley's Weekly Newspaper, June 22-28, 1995.
• "Naming the Rain," The Small Pond Magazine, V. XXXII, No. 2, Spring 1995.
• "Different Worlds," America's Intercultural Magazine (AIM), Spring 1995.
• "In Paradise," America's Intercultural Magazine (AIM), Spring 1995.
• "Angels," The Pinehurst Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, Spring 1995.

1994

• "What I really saw," Appalachian Trailway News, Nov./Dec. 1994.
• "The Lou-Lou Game," Whispers & Shouts, v. I, no. V, Autumn/Winter 1994.
• "With Channel 3's 'Arizona Family,' who needs real relatives?" Guest Column, The Arizona Republic, Sept. 4, 1994.
• "Reaching," Hawaii Review, Issue 40, Spring 1994.
• Reprinted in Eclectica, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 1997.
• "Claudia," My Legacy, Issue No. 14-A, May 1994.
• "Along Union Boulevard," Magnolia Leaf, March 1994.
• "Joey," The Paper Bag, No. 6, Winter/Spring 1994.

1993

• "Down the Shore," Sensations Magazine, Sixth Anniversary Issue, December 1993.
• "Little Girls With Guns," The Pegasus Review, September 1993.
• "Claudia," Fan Magazine, No. 13, Summer 1993.
• "Summer Evenings," Fan Magazine, No. 12, Spring 1993.
• "The Iconoclast," The Iconoclast, Issue number 12, 1993.

1990

• "Operations as a Part of an Integrated Network Management Solution to a Hybrid Private Network," with Maryam Mirmobini, Proceedings of the IEEE 1990 Network Operations and Management Symposium, San Diego, CA.

1988

• "Soft Gluons and the Normalization of the Drell-Yan Cross Section," with George Sterman and Paul MacKenzie, Nuclear Physics B309 , 259 (1988).

1986

• "Jets as a Probe of Quark-Gluon Plasmas," with George Sterman, Physical Review, D33, 717 (1986).
  • reprinted in Quark-Gluon Plasma - Theoretical Foundations, Joseph Kapusta, Johann Rafelski, and Berndt, Mueller, editors, Elsevier Science.

1984

• "Problems of Dimensional Reduction and Inflationary Cosmology," with Max Dresden, Proceedings of the Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory 8 -- Particles and Gravity, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1984, p. 229.