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\textbf{Rise \textbf{The rise  and fall of the biggest discovery of the century highlights stresses  the importance of open, collaborative science}. On 17 March 2014 \href{http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/CMB/bicep2/}{BICEP2}, a South Pole based experiment aimed at studying the very first moments of the universe, made a sensational \href{http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3985}{announcement}. They claimed to have detected for the first time the signature of an extremely rapid expansion of space that occurred right after the universe's birth. This expansion, also called inflation, is believed to be responsible for the existence of large-scale structures like clusters of galaxies, as well as to explain why the properties of the universe appear to be the same for all observers.