The world’s largest filled-aperture radio telescope, located in a remote basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou province in southweast China, is facing a somewhat unexpected problem: Not being able to hire qualified scientists to work at the awe-inspiring site, despite offering generous six-figure packages and five-star hotel accommodations. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the […]

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