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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

PAPER ACCEPTED ! I HAS ALL THE WIN !

PAPER ACCEPTED ! I HAS ALL THE WIN !

Err, I mean, this is an important breakthrough which will revolutionise science and push the boundaries of human knowledge !

... no, that's not right either...

This is a fairly interesting discovery which gently prods the boundaries of human knowledge. We found a bunch of galaxies with some extremely long gas streams, which is kindof neat. We're doing a press release on this one, but you heard it here first.

I'll have more to say on this, of course. Placeholder post intended to be replaced with a better summary.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0016
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