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Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence For Hydrogen Gas Falling Onto A Dark Matter Clump?
July 3, 2006 — ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it ... > full story -
New Fruit Fly Protein Illuminates Circadian Response To Light
June 29, 2006 — Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a new protein required for the circadian response to light in fruit flies. The discovery of this protein -- named JET ... > full story -
Continuous Search Begun For Gravitational Waves
June 28, 2006 — The joint German-British Gravitational Wave Detector GEO600 has now entered an 18-month run of continuous measurement. Researchers are optimistic that they will be able to observe a never before seen ... > full story -
XMM-Newton Spots The Greatest Of Great Balls Of Fire
June 13, 2006 — Thanks to data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant ... > full story -
Galaxy Evolution In Cyber Universe Matches Astronomical Observations In Fine Detail
June 12, 2006 — Scientists at the University of Chicago have bolstered the case for a popular scenario of the big bang theory that neatly explains the arrangement of galaxies throughout the universe. Their ... > full story -
Variable Physical Laws
June 9, 2006 — Physical quantities such as the speed of light are believed to be the same independent of where and when they appear in the universe. But imagine that these fundamental constants â�" ... > full story -
Testosterone Boosts Birds' Attractiveness, But Leads To Shorter Lifespan
May 26, 2006 — Dating and mating are unique for many species, but for dark-eyed junco songbirds, researchers led by North Dakota State University assistant biology professor Wendy Reed, Ph.D., found something ... > full story -
Scientists Predict How To Detect A Fourth Dimension Of Space
May 25, 2006 — Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's ... > full story -
Plants Tell Caterpillars When It's Safe To Forage
May 15, 2006 — The nocturnal feeding behavior of the caterpillar Mythimna separata is mediated by the volatiles released by the host plant, rather than by photoperiod, and may help the caterpillars avoid ... > full story -
'Lighthouses in the Sky' Yield Biggest-Ever 3-D Map of the Cosmos
May 15, 2006 — Astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, including principal authors now at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have published the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever ... > full story
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