Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and cosmology consultant for New Scientist. His latest book, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, is published by Faber.
Articles & posts by Marcus Chown
- We must stop Trump from slashing research into black holes
- Is the Universe shaped like a doughnut?
- The greatest astronomy PhD ever written
- The power of guesswork
- A telescope the size of the Earth
- The woman who discovered black holes
- Come with me for a walk through the Solar System
- The birth of neutrino astronomy
- Where are all the aliens?
- Could nuclear fusion save the planet?
- The one rule that binds them all
- Jocelyn Bell, woman of steel
- Programming in parallel universes
- Searching for alien technology
- Explosions of brilliant light
- The cult of pi
- Ready, steady, Mars!
- Does Planet Nine exist?
- The puzzle of nature’s building blocks
- On DNA and its marvellous mistakes
- Miracle of the plague year
- A massive cosmic puzzle
- The alien creatures that live in our bodies
- 10 amazing facts about the Moon
- Looking back in time and space
- Our incredible shrinking brains
- The terrifying power of solar flares
- Stellar prophesies: the power of prediction
- The mysteries of the neutrino
- The madness of the quantum universe
- When our sun was young
- Primordial black holes and an unprecedented discovery
- Why physics isn't dead
- The search for a new planet
- Why is the Sun hot?
- How to listen to the universe
- Black hole blues
- The secrets of rock tides
- The secret of how electricity powers the world
- Why you might not want the most powerful computer imaginable
- The afterglow of creation
- What comet landings can tell us about the origins of life
- Ten cosmic myths
- The dark side of our universe
- How farming gave us the iPhone
- How did the universe get so complicated?
- The death of the Milky Way
- Why is the Sun hot?
- Time to rethink physics?
- Home sweet home
- Masters of the universe
- Bad Moon rising
- Circle in a spiral
- Footprints in the dust
- Ring of fire
- Alien sunset
- Our fragile home
- Please squeeze me
- Hoag's Object
- Crack up
- Spiders from Mars
- Cosmic Accelerator
- Book review: The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
- Two-faced Moon
- Cloudy with a chance of hexagons
- The Sun at night
- A star is born
- The eye of Sauron
- Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth by Apostolous Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
- The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition