Science Shot is one of the world’s most popular weekly science and technology publications. Our website covers international news from a scientific standpoint, and asks the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human. If someone in the world has a good idea, you will read about it in Science Shot.
Our team comprises accomplished scientists from various disciplines, driven by a shared passion for science communication.
Accuracy, reliability, and up-to-date information are our hallmarks. We diligently research and verify content, offering credible insights and the latest scientific advancements.
What we cover
Six beats, chosen because they are where physics and heavy computing infrastructure actually meet.
- Particle PhysicsDetectors, accelerators and the instruments built to catch the smallest things there are.
- AI & Data CentersThe power, cooling, silicon and economics underneath the AI build-out.
- Quantum PhysicsQubits, error correction, and what quantum hardware can and cannot do yet.
- Semiconductors & ElectronicsChips, packaging, materials and the manufacturing that decides what ships.
- Cosmology & AstrophysicsNeutrinos, telescopes and the experiments aimed at the large-scale universe.
- OpinionsArguments rather than summaries, with the reasoning shown and the stake stated.
Why ScienceShot exists
There are magazines about fundamental physics, and there are publications about the computing industry. They rarely read each other. That is strange, because the same physics keeps turning up on both sides: the silicon that registers a particle in a detector is the silicon that runs an inference job, and the thermodynamics of holding a magnet at 1.9 kelvin is the thermodynamics of stopping a rack of accelerators from cooking itself.
ScienceShot is written from the seam between the two. It was started by a physicist who spent years at CERN building silicon particle detectors before moving into the data center industry, and it covers what that vantage point makes visible — not what was announced this week, but how the machine actually works and why the physics or the economics forces the outcome it does.
Every piece is written for two readers at once: someone curious who has never heard of a lambda point, and a professional who would notice immediately if we got it wrong. We do not average between them. The explanation is there for the first reader and the precision is there for the second, and a piece that gives up either one has failed.
Our Team
Five people, five beats. Each writes the part of this they know first-hand.
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Albert Major
FounderVisionary mind behind Science Shot, making science accessible to all. He spent years at CERN working on silicon particle detectors before moving into the data center industry — the two worlds this publication sits between.
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Viros Piro
MicroelectronicsViros Piro is a microelectronics specialist with a PhD in electronics and a background at CERN. He writes about semiconductors and electronics, quantum and particle physics, cosmology, and the computing infrastructure underneath them.
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John Mitchell
Universe & MatterJohn Mitchell holds a PhD in physics and works in quantum physics. He writes about the wonders of the universe — the facts that are genuinely astonishing, explained properly.
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Emily Johnson
Applied AIEmily Johnson is an AI expert, passionate about what AI can be put to work doing. She writes about how to leverage it — concrete ideas and implementations, not product news.
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Alex Turner
Data CentersAlex Turner is an engineer. He writes about the data centers the technology world runs on — the systems underneath the things everyone uses.
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Stay in touch
New articles land on the site several times a week. Follow along on social media, or get them by email through the newsletter — the latest pieces, announcements and the occasional thing that does not make it onto the site.
Questions, corrections and story tips are all welcome: get in touch. If we get something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.