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Discovery Prospects At The Large Hadron Collider
April 25, 2006 Will scientists ever find the elusive Higgs particle? Are there undiscovered particles "beyond" those described by the Standard Model? Experiments expected to begin next year at CERN will take up the ... > full story -
Cornell Study Finds That Galaxies Cluster Near Dark Matter
April 22, 2006 Dark matter has had a major effect on the formation and evolution of galaxies, and bright active galaxies appear to have been born only within dark matter clumps of certain sizes in the young ... > full story -
Controversial Findings Help Explain Evolution Of Life
April 8, 2006 Chemists have developed a controversial theory about how supposedly-stable DNA bases can be pushed into a "dark state" in which they are highly vulnerable to damage from ultraviolet radiation -- an ... > full story -
Neutrino Telescope Is Born On The Floor Of The Mediterranean
April 4, 2006 The first detection line of the Antares neutrino telescope, lying under 2,500 meters of water, was connected by Ifremer's remotely operated robot Victor 6000 to the onshore station at La ... > full story -
Andromeda's Stellar Halo Shows Galaxy's Origin To Be Similar To That Of Milky Way
March 20, 2006 For the last decade, astronomers have thought that the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, was rather different from the Milky Way. But a group of researchers have determined that the ... > full story -
Astronomers Discover A River Of Stars Streaming Across The Northern Sky
March 20, 2006 Astronomers have discovered a narrow stream of stars extending at least 45 degrees across the northern sky. The stream is about 76,000 light-years distant from Earth and forms a giant arc over the ... > full story -
Did 'Dark Matter' Create The First Stars?
March 19, 2006 Dark matter may have played a major role in creating stars at the very beginnings of the universe. If that is the case, however, the dark matter must consist of particles called "sterile neutrinos". ... > full story -
The Cosmic Dance Of Distant Galaxies
March 18, 2006 Studying several tens of distant galaxies, an international team of astronomers found that galaxies had the same amount of dark matter relative to stars 6 billion years ago as they have now. If ... > full story -
New Satellite Data On Universe's First Trillionth Second
March 16, 2006 Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence for what happened within its first trillionth of a second, when the universe suddenly grew from submicroscopic to ... > full story -
Amazonian Terra Preta Can Transform Poor Soil Into Fertile
March 1, 2006 Some of the globe's richest soil -- known as terra preta, or Amazonian dark earths -- can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. Because terra preta is loaded with so-called bio-char -- ... > full story
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