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Excerpts from the Red Folder
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I am the features editor of Physics World. I pick out the most compelling and topical research across the physical sciences, working with academics and journalists to perfect our long-form articles. I graduated with a BSc in physics from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, India, before completing a Master’s in science journalism at City University, London. I joined the Physics World team as a news reporter in 2011, and spent the next five years writing about everything from the oriental hornet to antimatter, though I particularly enjoy writing about cosmology and quantum mechanics. I became reviews and careers editor in 2016 (getting to read for a living is a wonderful thing), before taking on the features role in spring 2021. Outside work, my favourite pastimes include travelling, photography, science fiction and fantasy in all its forms, and spending a ridiculous amount of time on the Internet.
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Search of 100,000 galaxies fails to find waste heat of advanced civilizations
Read article: Trail runs cold on alien hotspots, for now
Excerpts from the Red Folder
New method can pick up extremely faint reflected light despite low signal-to-noise ratio
Read article: First visible light detected directly from an exoplanet
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New simulations show that signal is very difficult to explain by any known model
Read article: Dark matter and muons are ruled out as DAMA signal source
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Technique could make cryptographic systems more resilient to eavesdroppers
Read article: ‘Twisted light’ gives quantum cryptography a boost
A total eclipse at Castle Park
Catching up with CERN's ALPHA antimatter experiment