A group of astronomers, including ACRU members Jonathan Sievers, Tabhitha Voytek, and PhD student Apratim Ganguly, have discovered a fast radio burst (FRB) using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Only 16 of these events, which last for only milliseconds, have been found to date. This is the first polarised FRB to be discovered, which indicates that the burst came from a dense, magnetised region: possibly a supernova or star forming nebula. The results are published in Nature.