Brief blasts of gamma rays from the edges of the Universe could shed light on how the rate of star formation has varied since the beginning of time, reports Philip Ball.
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Blain,A. W. & Natarajan, P. Gamma-ray bursts and the history of star formation Monthly Notices of the RAS 312, L35 2000.
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Ball, P. Blasts from the past. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000316-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000316-7
