Stories by Corey S. Powell

The environment shapes stereotypes and biases, but it is possible to recognize and change them

Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research and promoting false equivalences

David Dunning explains how people can avoid overestimating their own knowledge, a psychological bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect

Astronomers could soon learn whether or not the nearest neighboring star system harbors habitable worlds

New studies of the oldest light and sound in the cosmos suggest novel physics—rather than systematic errors—could explain an unsolved scientific mystery

Ultima Thule, the most-distant object ever visited by a spacecraft, is revealing our solar system’s deepest history—and, just maybe, revolutionizing planetary science

Michel Mayor and grad student Didier Queloz were the first astronomers to identify an alien world as it circled a sunlike star

A new generation of physicists hope to succeed where Einstein failed

Reflections on science truth in an asbestos trial

The SOHO spacecraft finds intricate plasma flows coursing through the sun

Radio eyes witness the mass births and deaths of stars

A topsy-turvy earth may have triggered an evolutionary big bang

Did a blizzard of icy comets give the earth its oceans?

Fossil finds heat up the debate over the origins of our feathered friends

Could the first planet discovered around a sunlike star be a mirage?

Are the satellites of giant planets a place to look for life?

Coof low-budget astronomymputer power opens a new era

A quick-seeing satellite catches cosmic cannibals in the act

An international conference dares to ask, 'Is it time for the world to slow down?'

A satellite observes the lightning-fast flickerings of cosmic objects

An unusual concentration of science fact graces the silver screen

The controversy over Martian life is just beginning

Researchers nudge closer to the goal of quantum computing