Astrophysicist Matthew Bailes has taken out Australia’s top science prize for his part in the discovery of fast radio bursts – millisecond-duration radio flashes that can be used to calculate the mass of the universe. Professor Bailes was awarded the 2024 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science on Tuesday evening, joining some of the country’s most…

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