Cynthia Chiang, a cosmologist, builds telescopes and takes them to some of the most remote (and rugged) places on Earth, in search of radio-quiet spots where she can detect whispers from the very early cosmos. Her experiments use faint signals from hydrogen atoms to reveal what the universe was like when the first stars were born, and to study the era of cosmic dark before that first dawn.
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