Stories by ColinWright

Scientists create a Tractor Beam on water [video]

Ebola is a 'global emergency' as bodies litter streets

They're Made out of Meat

Has the Smartphone become the Quackphone?

Don't be a jerk

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011)

Questions about Nasa's space drive answered

Power down at Antarctic base

The snow words myth: progress at last (2007)

How unutterably rude Skype has become

Watch the Rosetta rendezvous

Critical code execution bug in Samba gives attackers superuser powers

Save the Pies for Dessert – effective visualization [pdf]

Dealing with boardroom and shareholder disputes

Could you jump onto a comet?

Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document

Computers, Paradoxes and the Foundations of Mathematics (2002) [pdf]

The Descent to C

Comet at 1000 km

The mathematics of discovering new things