Here is a fairly complete list of my recent articles:
- Archaeologist of Sound, Science (January 20, 2012) (pdf)
- Could a moon of Uranus harbour an underground ocean?, Nature (October 15, 2012)
- Single photon could detect quantum-scale black holes, Nature (November 22, 2012)
- Small galaxy harbours super-hefty black hole, Nature (November 28, 2012)
- Galaxy found at record-breaking distance, Nature (December 12, 2012)
- Meteorite carries ancient water from Mars, Nature (January 3, 2013)NuSTAR spies black holes in galactic web, Nature (January 8, 2013)
- Small stars host droves of life-friendly worlds, Nature (January 9, 2013)
- Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth, Nature (February 28, 2013)
- Physicists twist water into knots, Nature (March 3, 2013)
- Decade of the Monster, Science (March 29, 2013) (pdf)
- The wheels come off Kepler, Nature (May 21, 2013)
- Galaxy formation: Cosmic dawn, Nature (May 29, 2013)
- Two-laser boron fusion lights the way to radiation-free energy, Nature (October 8, 2013)
- Watery asteroid that orbited distant star boosts chances of life outside Solar System, Nature (October 10, 2013)
- Single electrons make waves, Nature (October 23, 2013)
- Black holes shrink but endure, Nature (October 29, 2013)
- Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram, Nature (December 10, 2013)
- Cosmologists at odds over mysterious anomalies in data from early Universe, Nature (December 13, 2013)
- Earth-mass exoplanet is no Earth twin, Nature (January 6, 2014)
- Kepler clue to supernova puzzle, Nature (January 14, 2014)
- Astrophysics: The heart of darkness, Nature (January 15, 2014)
- Light from ancient quasar reveals intergalactic web, Nature (January 19, 2014)
- It’s Snack Time in the Cosmos, NY Times (February 17, 2014) (pdf)
- NASA unveils exoplanet haul, Nature (February 26, 2014)
- When the Sky Explained Everything, Nautilus (March 6, 2014)
- When the Sky Explained Everything, Nautilus (March 6, 2014)
- How astronomers saw gravitational waves from the Big Bang, Nature (March 17, 2014)
- Telescope captures view of gravitational waves, Nature (March 17, 2014)
- Experts hail the gravitational-wave revolution, Nature (March 18, 2014)
- Gravitational-wave finding causes ‘spring cleaning’ in physics, Nature (March 21, 2014)
- Cosmology: Polar star, Nature (March 31, 2014)
- First exoplanet seen spinning, Nature (April 30, 2014)
- Milky Way map skirts question of gravitational waves, Nature (May 8, 2014)
- Gravitational wave discovery faces scrutiny, Nature (May 16, 2014)
- Nearby star hosts Kuiper belt twin, Nature (May 28, 2014)
- No evidence for or against gravitational waves, Nature (May 29, 2014)
- The space crusader: Q&A with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nature (May 29, 2014) (pdf)
- Wind may deflate search for habitable planets, Nature (June 2, 2014)
- Quantum method closes in on gravitational constant, Nature (June 18, 2014) (pdf)
- Gravitational-wave team admits findings could amount to dust, Nature (June 20, 2014)
- Exploding star reveals origins of Universe’s dust, Nature (July 9, 2014)
- Sound Bytes, Scientific American (March 2015) (pdf)
- Profile: Looking for life beyond the solar system, Science News (July 17, 2015)
- Vast cosmic voids merge like soap bubbles, Nature (October 15, 2015)
- Pluto: In the Icebox but Maybe Still Cookin’, Eos (November 9, 2015)
- New Spin on Pluto’s Moons, Eos (November 9, 2015)
- Boom! Sounding out the enemy, Science News (November 10, 2015) (pdf)
- The Dwarf Planet That Came in from the Cold—Maybe, Eos (November 12, 2015)
- The quantum source of space-time, Nature (November 16, 2015)
- Jupiter’s Europa Helps Earthlings See Sister Moon’s Volcano, Eos (November 17, 2015)
- Exoplanets: First Baby Pictures Unveiled, Eos (December 3, 2015)
- World Without Time, Eos (December 31, 2015)
- New Step Toward Finding Earth 2.0, Eos (January 8, 2016)
- Brightest-ever supernova still baffles astronomers, Nature (January 14, 2016)
- Math whizzes of ancient Babylon figured out forerunner of calculus, Eos (January 28, 2016)
- Proposed Planet Nine Elicits Cheers, Yawns, Hunt for Proof, Eos (February 4, 2016)
- Reactor data hint at existence of fourth neutrino, Science News (February 25, 2016)
- One-man band: the solo physicist who models black holes in sound, Nature (August 15, 2016)
- Rosetta Spacecraft Death-Dives into Comet Companion—On Purpose, Eos (September 30, 2016)
- Cool Jobs: Probing Pluto, Science News (February 16, 2017)
- Astronomers May Finally Have the First Picture of a Black Hole, April 17, 2017 (pdf)
- This ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry, Science (August 14, 2017)
- The 1919 Solar Eclipse and General Relativity’s First Major Triumph, Scientific American (May 28, 2019)
- How Einstein Became the First Science Superstar, NY Times (November 6, 2019) (pdf)
- Amino Acid Rock Music Helps Build New Proteins, Scientific American (March 18, 2020)
- Divide and Conquer: New Algorithm Examines Crime-Scene Bullets Segment by Segment, NIST (March 26, 2020)
- Hacking the unhackable, SPIE (November 1, 2020)
- Giant plume spotted erupting from moon of Saturn might contain ingredients for life, Science (May 30, 2023) (pdf)
- Jun Ye: A Timely Profile, NIST (June 26, 2023)
- Black holes, love and poetry–an artistic exploration of intimacy and adventure’, Nature (December 19, 2023) (pdf)
- Why quantum theory is just like magic (and Einstein deserves more credit in this field than he gets), Nature (October 28, 2024) (pdf)
Ron Cowen / Science Writer 