Sydney, When astronomers turn our radio telescopes toward space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves emanating from the vast expanse of the universe. We call them "radio transients": some burst only once, never to be seen again, and others flicker on and off in predictable...
Srinivas R Kulkarni, an Indian-origin professor of astronomy in Hong Kong, US, will be awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for his groundbreaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray burst supernovae and other variable or transient celestial bodies.Apart from Kulkarni...