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Every Winter Olympics cycle, people turn on their television or whatever device suits their viewing needs and see athletes using a broom to help guide a 44-pound stone down a sheet of ice. The brooms, ...

Andrew Biggin receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our ...