
Its narrative encompasses half a dozen leads spread out over three or four continents, and includes plotlines as intimate as a teenage romance and as sweeping as national political movements.īut if the broadness of its scope is intriguing, the broadness of its storytelling sometimes comes as a disappointment.

Like the Naomi Alderman novel it’s based on, it’s set in a world transformed by a quirk of biology that suddenly gifts teenage girls the ability to generate electric jolts from their fingertips - and like the Alderman novel, it attempts a forest- and-the-trees approach to the premise. She has been underground at three of the largest particle accelerators in the world and would really like to know what the heck dark matter is.Amazon’s The Power does not want for ambition. In 2018, Calla left to join NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory media team where she oversees astronomy, physics, exoplanets and the Cold Atom Lab mission. Calla studied physics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is originally from Sandy, Utah.

Previously, Calla worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (hands down the best office building ever) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California. From 2010 to 2014 she was a producer for The Physics Central Podcast. Prior to joining Calla worked as a freelance writer, with her work appearing in APS News, Symmetry magazine, Scientific American, Nature News, Physics World, and others. She enjoys writing about black holes, exploding stars, ripples in space-time, science in comic books, and all the mysteries of the cosmos. Calla Cofield joined 's crew in October 2014.
