Ron Cowen is an award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. His 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.