Science in meter and verse
This article was originally published with the title “Weight” in Scientific American 328, 1, 22 (January 2023)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0123-22
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Barbara Ungar‘s forthcoming collection of poems is After Naming the Animals. Her other published collections include Save Our Ship; Immortal Medusa; Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life; and The Origin of the Milky Way. She is a professor of English at the College of St. Rose in Albany, N.Y. Credit: Nick Higgins
