Big news apparently due to be announced Monday (currently just a well-circulated rumor).
The good people at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics seem to have detected primordial gravitational waves from the big bang.
(This is not quite the same thing as direct detection via the LIGO detector
www.ligo.caltech.edu, but still very exciting.)
Here's the Guardian's take on it.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...universe-bicep