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• Publications seen as threat to serious discussion

  Scientific discussion will slowly but surely die out should ever more researchers choose to publish their work in the journals Nature and Science. The focus of these two publications on sensation and high news value suffocates a serious discussion on the advances made by the research. This is the warning of John Ågren, Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

• Cosmic explosion reveals flaws in theories about universe

  An international research team that includes members from Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University has observed one of the most powerful cosmic explosions yet measured. The results are difficult to explain with any existing model, showing that we have a long way to go before understanding the most extreme events in our universe.