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I see this all over the news, not only on HN. But the signal was detected in May 2021. What makes this newsworthy now instead of then?
by Aardwolf 3y ago
I see this all over the news, not only on HN. But the signal was detected in May 2021. What makes this newsworthy now instead of then?
- sandworm101 3y agoA slower news cycle. In recent days US politics and the various wars have hit relatively steady states. So the news outlets are casting out for interesting science content, stuff that doesn't require math to understand.
- exegete 3y agoThe findings were published now in a scientific journal and not then.
- moh_maya 3y agoPerhaps because the peer-reviewed paper was published only recently (23rd Nov) - while not a perfect system (see the recent issues with the retraction of the super-conductivity paper by Nature), I think it not a bad thing that journalists are covering such reports once they have undergone the peer-review process - however flawed it may be, and not just based on the university or research group published press-release announcing the results before the peer-review process is complete. [1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5095 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5095
- jordanpg 3y agoAlso, while the final result can be simply stated in a headline, performing the analysis that rules out all known sources of error is very, very difficult and can take years to validate.
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