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Things can and do go wrong when some announcements are mad ahead of time. Flickr/Narshada

September 29, 2014

The risks of blowing your own trumpet too soon on research

Daniel Price, Monash University

UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Today a cautionary tale of why you should be careful of some new announcements made…

There’s a lot of dust between us and the edge of the universe. H Raab/Flickr

June 3, 2014

Has dust clouded the discovery of gravitational waves?

Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology and Krzysztof Bolejko, University of Sydney

It’s almost three months since a team of scientists announced it had detected polarised light from the afterglow of the Big Bang. But questions are still being asked about whether cosmic dust may have…

BICEP2 is on the roof of the building on the left. Rashmi Sudiwala

March 28, 2014

Scientists at work: building up BICEP2 at the South Pole to make discovery of the year

Rashmi Sudiwala, Cardiff University

The astronomical instrument BICEP2 was deployed at the South Pole in 2009 to look for evidence that would support the theory of inflation, which tries to explain how the universe looked a trillionth of…

Anthony Gormley should have put the Quantum Cloud in a box. lwr

March 21, 2014

The next big deal: detecting gravitational waves at your desk

Carlos Sabin, University of Nottingham

Physics is on the front pages of newspapers around the world. This time it is because of the announcement made by a team of scientists who seem to have found indirect evidence for the existence of “primordial…

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