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Bruce Dorminey

(He/Him)
United States
As seen in: Forbes, MSN, UOL, Scientific American, South China Morning Post, Flipboard, Live Science, Phys.org, Discover Magazine, ScienceAlert, Universe Today and
Covers:  Astronomy, astrobiology, archaeoastronomy, earth science, astrophysics, aerospace and space
Doesn't Cover: I do NOT cover politics or entertainment.
@former Forbes senior contributor. Author Distant Wanderers: The Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System. Opinions my own.

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Over the last three and a half decades, award-winning science journalist Bruce Dorminey --- a former Forbes senior science contributor, former Hong Kong Bureau Chief at Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine and former Paris-based technology correspondent for the Financial Times, has written for a multitude of high profile publications. They include Astronomy Magazine, Sky and Telescope, Scientific American, Science, Nature News, National Geographic, and Universe Today. He is the author of…

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Bruce Dorminey - science journalist/author & Forbes.com contributor

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Ancient Swedish Goths Had Surprisingly Accurate Calendars

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By Bruce Dorminey
| Universe Today Verified
On a mostly flat plain an hour north of Stockholm lies a collection of large burial mounds dating from an ancient culture at least 2500 years old. These people were not Vikings; they were northern Germanic Goths, pagan polytheists worshiping the precursors of Odin, Freyr and Thor. In truth, this ancient subgroup of Goths could probably have cared less about astronomy as we know it today. Yet inexplicably they were driven to make precise measurements of the Sun and Moon.
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Earth May Not Be a Cosmic Fluke, New Simulations Suggest

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By Bruce Dorminey
| SciTechDaily
This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. This planet, which lies only 11 light-years from Earth, was found by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Solar system simulations starting from varied initial conditions suggest that Earth-like planets can emerge naturally from planet formation.
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Distant Quasars Provide Crucial Link In Understanding Earliest Supermassive Black Holes

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By Bruce Dorminey
| Universe Today Verified
Among the rarest objects in the universe, high redshift quasars --- of the sort that formed before the universe was even a billion years-old --- offer clues to the formation of supermassive black holes thought to lie at the heart of every large galaxy. Every large galaxy, like the Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole of a million even up to a few billion times the mass of the Sun, Daniel Mortlock, an astrophysicist at Imperial College London, told me in his office.
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What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I love Google Scholar and Arxiv. I am still a bit wary of newer AI search engines.

What's your favorite social network?

Facebook

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

I still thrive on traveling internationally, particularly in Europe and interviewing people face to face the old fashioned way.