Tag: BICEP2

• BICEP3: Revenge of the telescope

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Dusting for the fingerprint of inflation with BICEP3 A new experiment at the South Pole picks up where BICEP2 left off For Symmetry Magazine: When researchers with the BICEP2…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 20, 2016

  Symmetry Magazine

  BICEP2, BICEP3, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, gravitational waves, inflation

• The Daily Beast’s latest astronomy columnist is…me!

  Now it can be told: I will be writing a weekly post for The Daily Beast (making me The Weekly Beast?), on space, astronomy, and such things. My first column is about inflation, and why it’s a big deal: If you compare any two points on the night sky, their temperature as measured in microwave…

  Matthew R. Francis

  March 31, 2014

  The Daily Beast, Writing for Other Sites

  astronomy, BICEP2, cosmology, inflation