In the Press

Our research often captures the imagination and attention of the general public. Here are a few links to stories about our research in the public media.

Captured Radio Signal from Most Distant Galaxy

• Tech Explorist, Jan 23, 2023 

• McGill Newsroom, Jan 16, 2023 

Multi-Million Dollar Donation to boost MSI Research

• Globe and Mail, Nov 21, 2022

CHIME Wins 2020 Governor General's Innovation Award

• McGill Reporter, July 14, 2020

CHIME Fast Radio Bursts project in Nature 2019 List

• McGill Reporter, Dec 17, 2019

Press Articles Covering Dobbs' Killam Fellowship

• Global News, BC article, May 6, 2019

• Listen to the CJAD Radio Interview, May 3, 2019

• UVic Martlet Article (cached), May 23, 2019        

• Global News Coverage Article and Video Interviews by Shelby Thom  (cached article, cached video)

• Local news coverage near the CHIME Telescope

  • Kelowna Now news

  • Penticton Herald (cached)

  • Penticton Castanet News

• McGill Reporter Article (cached), April 25, 2019

• Canada Council for the Arts Announcement (cached) and Project Description, April 2019

Press Articles Covering CHIME FRB's First Results 

• "Broadcasting from Deep Space, a Mysterious Series of Radio Signals", New York Times, Jan 10, 2019

  • https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/science/radio-bursts-universe-astronomy.html

• CBC TV Interview with Pragya Chawla, Jan 10, 2019 

  • https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1423765059621 (starts at 11:32)

• https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=370957350383101

• Radio interview with Matt Dobbs on The Current, Jan 11, 2019

  •  https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/signal-from-deep-space-is-probably-not-aliens-just-exotic-physics-prof-1.4974520

• "Canadian astronomers discover 2nd mysterious repeating fast radio burst", CBC News, Jan 9, 2019

  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/fast-radio-bursts-1.4969863

• "Bevy of mysterious fast radio bursts spotted by Canadian telescope", Nature News, Jan 8, 2019.

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00049-5

Press Articles Covering CHIME's First FRB detection

• Telescope spots enigmatic fast radio burst, Nature News, Aug 7, 2019

  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05908-1

• Radio telescope near Penticton, B.C., opening new doors in astrophysics, The Globe and Mail, Aug 5, 2019

  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-radio-telescope-near-penticton-bc-opening-new-doors-in-2/

  • (Similar article re-run by The Times Colonist) https://www.timescolonist.com/radio-telescope-near-penticton-b-c-opening-new-doors-in-astrophysics-1.23390532

• B.C. radio telescope records low-frequency burst from outer space, The Abbotsford News, Aug 6, 2019

  • https://www.abbynews.com/trending-now/video-b-c-radio-telescope-records-low-frequency-burst-from-outer-space/

• Canadian radio telescope records mysterious low-frequency bursts from outside our galaxy, Global News, Aug 3, 2019

  • https://globalnews.ca/news/4370531/chime-frb-outside-our-galaxy/ 

• A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space, Live Science, Aug 3, 2019

  • https://amp.livescience.com/63254-mystery-frb-detected-canada.html

• Canada’s new digital radio telescope is finding many Fast Radio Bursts as planned, Next Big Future, Aug 2, 2019

  • https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/08/canadas-new-digital-radio-telescope-is-finding-many-fast-radio-bursts-as-planned.html

Press Articles covering CHIME First Light

• CHIME: New Canadian telescope will map largest volume of space ever surveyed, CIfAR Press Release, Sept 7, 2017

  • https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-09/cifa-cnc090717.php 

• "Listening for the universe to chime in", The Globe and Mail Science Section, Sept 7, 2017

  • https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/chime-telescope-dark-energy/article36183652/

• Canada's largest radio telescope unveiled in British Columbia, CBC Tech and Science News, Sept 7, 2017

  • http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/chime-telescope-unveiled-1.4278807

• Article featuring WVU Prof. (and former McGill Postdoc) Kevin Bandura's role in CHIME, Sept 7, 2017

  • http://www.newswise.com/articles/wvu-professor-plays-key-role-in-telescope-program-that-will-map-the-history-of-the-universe

CHIME Outreach Videos Released for CHIME First Light, Sept 2017

• 2017-09-17 CHIME report on Les années lumière, with Jean-Francois Cliche and Luc Simard (in French)

  • http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/les-annees-lumiere/episodes/389839/audio-fil-du-dimanche-17-septembre-2017

Press Releases for Tech-companies providing Components for CHIME

• AMD Graphics Processor units

• e2v Analog to digital converters  

CIfAR Reach Article on CHIME

• "Canada CHIMEs In",  an accessible introduction to CHIME, written by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

McGill Technology Developed for the CHIME Project is Featured in the Xilinx Daily Blog

• http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog/Looking-for-Dark-Energy-using-FPGAs-GPUs-and-CHIME-in-Canada-s/ba-p/498274 

Interview with IEEE Spectrum

• http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/how-do-you-see-gravitational-waves 

Interview with Matt Dobbs on the Starspot podcast

• • Matt Dobbs is interviewed on the Starspot podcast with Justin Trottier, published Nov 3, 2013. The interview discusses dark energy, galaxy clusters, and the South Pole Telescope.

TV Documentary (in French) on our use of The South Pole Telescope and CHIME to probe Dark Energy

• Code Chastenay Episode 143, October 8, 2013.

Press Coverage for CHIME CFI Announcement/Pathfinder Ground Breaking

• The Globe and Mail, January 27, 2013 (link, pdf)

• Macleans Magazine, January 25, 2013 (link, pdf) 

• McGill Reporter Article

Nov 2010 Canada Research Chair Renewed

• • Tony Clement, Federal Industry Minister, announced Nov. 24, 2010 the renewal of Dobbs' T2 Canada Research Chair for a second 5 year term Press Release

Sept 2010 Our EBEX Stratospheric Balloon project is featured on Quebec TV

• A TV documentary (in French) on our project to search for inflationary gravity waves with EBEX 

  • Le Code Chastenay (Quebec TV).

May 2010 Keith's Winter-over Experience and the South Pole Telescope featured in the Gazette

• The article in PDF format: 2010-05-10_GazetteSouthPoleTelescope.pdf

April 2010 The South Pole Telescope is featured in Smithsonian Magazine

• Smithsonian.com The Smithsonian magazine article features photographs of the SPT by McGill postdoc Keith Vanderlinde.

  • PDF copy of article: 2010_SPT_SmithsonianArticle.pdf

 Mar 2010 Federal Member of Parliament Visits Energy and the Environment Class

• http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2010/03/cullen-to-science-students-join-the-political-debate/ Mar 31, 2010

  • PDF copy of article

Feb 2010 Dobbs Featured in Reporter Article about Sloan Fellowship

• http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2010/02/stars-align-as-researcher-earns-sloan-fellowship/ March 2, 2010 

2009 Matt Dobbs' Public Lecture on the Birth of the Universe broadcast on Canal Savoir TV

• http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=112716 Dec 18, 2009 

  • McGill Podcast

April 8, 2009 EBEX is featured on CBC Radio show "Home Run"

• Matt Dobbs was interviewed by host Bernard St-Laurent about the upcoming flight of the EBEX mm-wavelength telescope aboard a NASA stratospheric balloon.

March 2009 The South Pole Telescope is featured on the Cover of the CERN courier

• Article

Sept 2008 Article in McGill Reporter Article on Keith Vanderlinde's View of the South Pole

• McGill Reporter Link

May 2008 Article in the Toronto Star covering the national Canadian astronomy conference and highlighting the South Pole Telescope

• Toronto Star Link

  • PDF of Toronto Star Article 

March 2008 Article in New York Times on the South Pole Telescope

• NY Times Link

  • PDF of NY Times Article

  • Note: this article states that we have already announced the discovery of a previously unknown cluster with SPT. This is incorrect.

June 2007 Article In Quebec Science Magazine

• The cover story for the June issue of Quebec Science "Enquête sur la face cachée de l'Univers" describes Dark Energy (in french). It included an interview with Dobbs and photos of the South Pole Telescope.

• PDF copy or article

March 16, 2007 Coverage in Science Magazine

• Science News, "For Extreme Astronomy, Head Due South", Science, Vol 316, p. 1523, March 2007 (Download PDF).

March 12, 2007 Canada AM News

• The South Pole Telescope was featured again on Canada AM, a national morning news program on Canadian TV

  • Text Story

  • Oops Canada AM - the milky way is not a galaxy cluster!

• CTV Video

  • Archived on Google Video 

Feb 26, 2007 NSF Press Release for the South Pole Telescope First Light

• http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108413&org=olpa&from=news

February 26, 2007, Landmark Completion of South Pole Telescope. Scientific Frontline

• http://www.sflorg.com/spacenews/sn022607_01.html

Feb 2007 Canadian Media for the South Pole Telescope

• Feb 13, 2007 Interview on CBC Radio Daybreak with Mike Finnerty

• CBC Radio National News with Justin Hayward

  • MP3 Audio: CBC Radio's "The World at Six"

  • MP3 Audio: CBC Radio's "The World this Hour"

• Feb 7, 2007 McGill Outreach News Article On South Pole Telescope Blog

• • http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/news/?ItemID=23785

• CBC TV News at Six, Montreal

  • Archived on Google Video 

• February 4, 2007 CBC Radio's "All in a Weekend" program (This is our favorite of the interviews... if you only listen to one, choose this one.)

  • archived at http://www.cbc.ca/allinaweekend/listenagain_feb07.html (scroll down to Feb 4 or search for "Dobbs").

  • MP3 Audio (13 Minutes, 19 MB)

  • The CBC radio real audio link is http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/media/audio/allinaweekend/20070206MATT_DOB.ram .

Spring 2006, McGill in-Focus Science Edition Magazine focuses on Astrophysics

• PDF copy of article