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Featured Articles, Nature

Dark mysteries 50 years after the discovery of quasars

Link January 15, 2014 Ron Cowen

Dark mysteries 50 years after the discovery of quasars

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Media Appearances, NPR Science Friday

NPR’s Science Friday Appearance [NPR Science Friday]

January 19, 2013 Ron Cowen

As mentioned yesterday, here is a link for my guest appearance on January 18’s Science Friday on NPR. For my tenth appearance on Science Friday, I discussed some of the stories I reported for Nature from the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. My stories are covered about 8 minutes into this audio link.

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Science Writer

Ron Cowen

Award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. Articles include features and news stories on the earliest known recorded sounds, an essay on Hubble Space Telescope photography and evidence suggesting the universe is a hologram.

Dubbed “the scoop machine,” by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Ron has been published in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and US News & World Report.

To get in touch with Ron, email him at roncowen [at] msn.com.