David L. Chandler

Author, photographer, public speaker

David L. Chandler is an award-winning freelance writer and a photographer. Chandler began writing about science in 1975 and since then has authored two books and written thousands of published articles circulated in newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Examiner, and the Boston Globe magazine, NewScientist, Smithsonian, Innovation, Wired, and many more. Forbes listed Chandler as one of the 500 most influential journalists and he has been included on three Who’s Who lists. Chandler has made numerous television, radio, and public-speaking appearances; participated on several universities’ panel discussions; and serves as a judge for the fellowship’s application process at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Wed, 10/23/2024 - 12:02
When Is It Worth Remanufacturing? MIT study shows sometimes it saves energy, sometimes it doesn’t—and sometimes it makes things worse
Wed, 05/18/2011 - 06:00
It seems like a no-brainer: Remanufacturing products rather than making new ones from scratch—widely done with everything from retread tires to refilled inkjet cartridges to remanufactured engines—should save a lot of energy, right? Not so fast,…
How Liquids Behave Researchers identify a fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures
Mon, 01/31/2011 - 05:00
In a finding that has met with surprise and some controversy in the scientific community, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have discovered a basic property that governs the way water and many other…
MIT Team Develops System for Continuous Medical Monitoring New system uses widely available, inexpensive video technology
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 08:37
You can check a person’s vital signs—pulse, respiration, and blood pressure—manually or by attaching sensors to the body. But a student in the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Health and Sciences Technology program is working on…