Media INAF, the official news bulletin of INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, posted a very nice interview to Leo Giani discussing the results of our Laniakea paper recently published in JCAP. The interview is in Italian, but Google translate does a good job, and you can read it here:
www.media.inaf.it/2024/02/12/laniakea-tensione-hubble/
Enjoy the read, and once more excellent job on this paper Leo!
Media coverage for Laniakea paper
Our Laniakea paper has been picked up by Universe Today, who write a nice piece which you can find here:
www.universetoday.com/164198/if-you-account-for-the-laniakea-supercluster-the-hubble-tension-might-be-even-larger/
The same piece was later picked up by Phys.org, and our results were mentioned in passing in the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial (as well as a number of other news outlets). Enjoy the read!
Science Magazine interview
I was recently interviewed by Adrian Cho for Science Magazine on the current status of the Hubble tension and what could solve it, with part of the discussion motivated by my seven hints paper. Adrian’s extremely nice piece appeared today and, besides from myself, contains quotes from a number of well-known scientists, including Adam Riess, Tanvi Karwal, Johannes Eskilt, Ryan Keeley, Marc Kamionkowski, and Samuel Goldstein. You can read the full article here:
www.science.org/content/article/universes-puzzlingly-fast-expansion-may-defy-explanation-cosmologists-fret
I had great fun talking to Adrian, and I hope you enjoy the interview!
Media coverage for seven hints paper
My seven hints paper has been picked up by Universe Today, who write a nice piece which you can find here:
www.universetoday.com/163026/its-going-to-take-more-than-early-dark-energy-to-resolve-the-hubble-tension/
The same piece was later picked up by Phys.org. Enjoy the read! 😃
Media coverage for asteroid paper
Our work the use of asteroids to search for fifth forces has been picked up by Vice, who interviewed first author Yu-Dai Tsai. You can read their piece here:
www.vice.com/en/article/z3mx4a/scientists-want-to-use-asteroids-to-search-for-hidden-fifth-force
More media coverage for primordial graviton background paper
Over the past few weeks our primordial graviton background paper has been receiving a tremendous amount of media attention (in no small part due to the excellent joint Cambridge-Harvard press release and to its being picked up by Phys.org), particularly in the Italian and Spanish-speaking media. Particularly noteworthy is the coverage from Media INAF:
www.media.inaf.it/2022/11/04/vagnozzi-inflazione/
Remarkably, a few local Trentino Alto-Adige newspapers also picked up on this (first time for me appearing in a newspaper from Trentino):
www.lavocedeltrentino.it/2022/11/16/dubbi-sulla-nascita-del-cosmo-nel-team-anche-un-ricercatore-delluniversita-di-trento/ (La Voce del Trentino)
www.ildolomiti.it/ricerca-e-universita/2022/fondo-di-gravitoni-lo-studio-di-vagnozzi-unitn-e-del-collega-loeb-apre-una-nuova-porta-per-falsificare-il-paradigma-piu-accreditato-sulla-formazione-delluniverso (Il Dolomiti)
I particularly enjoyed the interview with Sara De Pascale from il Dolomiti, whose piece (in Italian of course) I highly recommend!
Regretfully, a number of other pieces were scientifically incorrect or misleading at best, suggesting that Avi and I claim that inflation is ruled out and should be replaced by a Big Bounce - let me clearly state once and for all that we said no such thing and made no judgement call on the status of inflation (in fact, in the second paragraph of the paper we explicitly write “Here we do not seek to take sides in the debate”…), so these issues simply amount to bad or click-bait journalism.