Could a romance heroine cut it as an astrophysicist? That was the question I had to answer two years ago when I started working on my romance novel, It Should Happen To You.
This year, the SLAC Summer Institute, a two-week-long series of physics lectures for young scientists, focused on gravity and Einstein's theories of relativity.
I have spent the past year at the Department of Energy in Washington, DC, as Scientific Advisor to Robin Staffin, the Associate Director for High Energy Physics.