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I am currently visiting my friend and colleague Pengjie Zhang at the Shanghai Observatory. Shanghai is a truly amazing city; the largest in China in terms of population, with more…

Many particle astrophysicists have eagerly awaited the release of the first PAMELA data on high-energy positrons. Now the data have been quasi-released, in the sense that they do appear in…

NASA has renamed GLAST to “Fermi”, in honour of you know who. The map on the left, taken from the GLAST, I mean Fermi, website, is based on the first…