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  Hunt for Dark Matter Closes in at Large Hadron Collider

  January 31, 2011 — Physicists are closer than ever to finding the source of the Universe's mysterious dark matter, following a better than expected year of research at the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector, part ... > full story
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  Mother's Happier When Babies Are Six Months Old Than When Three Years Old, Norwegian Study Suggests

  January 27, 2011 — The baby and toddler phase is not necessarily the happiest time in life for new mothers. Satisfaction with life and one's relationship can deteriorate for most new mothers. However, those who are ... > full story
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  Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Yet Seen: Hubble Sees Farther Back in Time Than Ever Before

  January 26, 2011 — Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to it limits by finding what they believe to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe -- at a distance of 13.2 billion light years, ... > full story
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  Swift Survey Finds 'Missing' Active Galaxies

  January 20, 2011 — Seen in X-rays, the entire sky is aglow. Even far away from bright sources, X-rays originating from beyond our galaxy provide a steady glow in every direction. Astronomers have long suspected that ... > full story
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  Astronomers Release the Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made

  January 19, 2011 — Astronomers have produced the largest-ever map of the sky. This survey has made it possible to build an image from which a source catalog of unprecedented quality covering a large fraction of the sky ... > full story
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  Chandra Images Torrent of Star Formation

  January 13, 2011 — A new Chandra X-ray Observatory image of Messier 82, or M82, shows the result of star formation on overdrive. At a distance of only 12 million light years, M82 provides a unique cosmic laboratory for ... > full story
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  Best Way to Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better

  January 13, 2011 — Dark energy is a mysterious force that pervades all space, acting as a "push" to accelerate the universe's expansion. Despite being 70 percent of the universe, dark energy was only discovered in 1998 ... > full story
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  Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of the Universe

  January 12, 2011 — The Planck mission released a new data catalogue Jan. 11, 2011 from initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue includes thousands of never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming, and ... > full story
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  Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After All

  January 12, 2011 — Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once ... > full story
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  Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Identified

  January 12, 2011 — Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient collection of galaxies presumably grew into a modern galaxy cluster similar to ... > full story

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