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...Open University Professor) noticed a ‘bit of scruff’ on her radio telescope charts. It was a signal from deep space that pulsed every 1.3 seconds (Hewish et al., 1968). She had discovered a Neutron Star. This is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel. Imagine a star heavier than our Sun squeezed into a ball the size of a city (about 20km wide)....

...source of a fire is not a forensic scientist? Why is education alone not sufficient for one to become a forensic scientist? Discussion a. Crime dramas tend to oversimplify forensic science, which is often necessary to move a plot along. Results that may take days or weeks take hours because it would be boring to watch a protagonist twiddle their thumbs or get on with...

...Open University, interviews Dr Sayantan Banerjee, a statistician from IIM-Indore...[Photo of Sayantan Banerjee] Dr Sayantan Banerjee Dr. Sayantan Banerjee is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques Area at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore (IIM-Indore). He has a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State...