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Corey S Powell

Science Journalist, New York

Corey S Powell is an editor and journalist with a special fondness for all things astronomical and particulate. He has been at Discover, Scientific American and Aeon. He is the author of God in the Equation (2003), and co-author of Unstoppable (2016), Undeniable (2014) and Everything All at Once (2017) with Bill Nye, with whom he also makes the Science Rules! podcast. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Written by Corey S Powell

The search for alien tech | Aeon
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Cosmology

The search for alien tech

There’s a new plan to find extraterrestrial civilisations by the way they live. But if we can see them, can they see us?

Corey S Powell

Fate of the Universe | Aeon
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Cosmology

Fate of the Universe

Are we part of a dying reality or a blip in eternity? The value of the Hubble Constant could tell us which terror awaits

Corey S Powell

Edited by Corey S Powell

Spiritual hyperplane | Aeon
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History of science

Spiritual hyperplane

How spiritualists of the 19th century forged a lasting association between higher dimensions and the occult world

Paul Halpern

Want faster data and a cleaner planet? Start mining asteroids | Aeon
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Space exploration

Want faster data and a cleaner planet? Start mining asteroids

Philip Metzger

How the whalers of Moby-Dick could help put humans on Mars | Aeon
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Space exploration

How the whalers of Moby-Dick could help put humans on Mars

Matthew Bruen

Armchair science | Aeon
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History of science

Armchair science

Thought experiments played a crucial role in the history of science. But do they tell us anything about the real world?

Dan Falk

Life goes deeper | Aeon
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Earth science and climate

Life goes deeper

The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms

Gaetan Borgonie & Maggie Lau

Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture | Aeon
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Architecture

Let’s open our sealed-off lives to semi-permeable architecture

Rachel Armstrong

Who first buried the dead? | Aeon
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Rituals and celebrations

Who first buried the dead?

Evidence of burial rites by the primitive, small-brained Homo naledi suggests that symbolic behaviour is very ancient indeed

Paige Madison

How natural is numeracy? | Aeon
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Mathematics

How natural is numeracy?

Where does our number sense come from? Is it a neural capacity we are born with — or is it a product of our culture?

Philip Ball

Universe in a bubble | Aeon
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Cosmology

Universe in a bubble

Maybe we don’t have to speculate about what life is like inside a bubble. It might be the only cosmic reality we know

J Richard Gott

To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it | Aeon
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Space exploration

To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it

Ramin Skibba

The most wonderful words in science: ‘We have no idea… yet!’ | Aeon
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History of science

The most wonderful words in science: ‘We have no idea… yet!’

Daniel Whiteson

Operation: neutrino | Aeon
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Physics

Operation: neutrino

How the neutrino went from ghost particle to vital physics tool – a tale of bombs, espionage and subtle flavours

David Kaiser