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That humans quest for cosmic dawn

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From 'Cosmic dawn: the search for the primordial hydrogen signal', Physics World, November 18, 2025: The EDGES instrument is a dipole antenna, which resembles a ping-pong table with a gap in…

Bharat Biotech gets 1/10 for tweet

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If I had been Bharat Biotech's teacher and "Where is your data?" had been an examination question, Bharat Biotech would have received 1 out of 10 marks. The correct answer to where is…

Why scientists should read more

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The amount of communicative effort to describe the fact of a ball being thrown is vanishingly low. It's as simple as saying, "X threw the ball." It takes a bit more effort to describe ho…