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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
Ah, the physics Nobel Prize - the best Nobel Prize of course - but what was it for? Luke and I have a chat about black holes, cool...
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The Brightest Objects in the Universe
A new chat with Dr Karl on Shirtloads of Science! Listen here
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Gravity is NOT a force!
I recently acted as a consultant on a video about how gravity is not a force in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. This was really...
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Beat the Big Bang: A review of our book
We had a recent chat with Physics High about our book, "The Cosmic Revolutionary's Handbook: How to beat the Big Bang". Check out the...
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Finding the Youngest Galaxies
I wrote an article for Space Australia on how you find the Youngest Galaxies. Check it out here. Gravitational lensing works through...
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When Black Holes Collide!
A new podcast with Dr Karl, discussing black hole collisions and gravitational waves. Grab it now here
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Lux ex tenebris: The imprint of annihilating dark matter
A new paper on the arxiv discussing the impact of decaying dark matter on the early evolution of the universe. You can read the paper here
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Stable Chemicals for Life?
Life in our universe is build from the stable chemical elements in the period table, but why are they stable? In our latest video, Luke...
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The Universe has a Dark-Side, with Dr Karl
Another chat with Dr Karl, discussing the dark side of the universe. "Dr Karl probes Professor Lewis on the latest on Dark Matter. Is it...
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Who discovered the Cosmic Microwave Background?
The discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background is a key piece of evidence for the Big Bang model of the expanding universe. But who...
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Top Galactic Neighbourhoods
Another Shirtloads of Science with Doctor Karl, chatting about good, and bad, places to live in the Galaxy. https://shirtloadsofscience.l...
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Faster than light: Shirtloads of Science with Dr Karl
A new podcast with the colourful Doctor Karl discussing how traveling faster than the speed of light is a local rule, a rule that can be...
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Why won't scientists listen?
A new Alas Lewis and Barnes where we discuss why scientists rarely respond to emails from new revolutionaries - Are they simple hiding...
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Other Forms of Life?
Latest Alas Lewis and Barnes
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Shirtloads of Science with Doctor Karl
In the lock-down, I've been recording a few episodes of Shirt Loads of Science with Doctor Karl. These include: Entropy Shuttle vs Soyuz...
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HUNTING DARK MATTER USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A write-up of our recent paper on using neural nets to untangle the gamma ray signal from the Galactic Centre, a potential sign of dark...
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The Stars that Time Forgot
A write-up of our recent discovery of the Phoenix Stream that appeared in Nature
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