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Scientists 'RAVE-Ing' About Most Ambitious Star Survey Ever
January 15, 2006 — An international team of astronomers is announcing the first results from RAVE, an ambitious all-sky spectroscopic survey aimed at measuring the speed, temperature, surface gravity and composition of ... > full story -
Fossil Galaxy Reveals Clues To Early Universe
January 14, 2006 — A tiny galaxy has given astronomers a glimpse of a time when the first bright objects in the universe formed, ending the dark ages that followed the birth of the universe. Astronomers from Sweden, ... > full story -
Milky Way Galaxy Is Warped And Vibrating Like A Drum
January 10, 2006 — For 50 years, astronomers have puzzled over a mysterious warp in the Milky Way galaxy, as seen in the hydrogen gas embedded among the stars. A new map of gas by UC Berkeley astronomers shows that the ... > full story -
A Few Squares Of Dark Chocolate A Day May Stave Off Artery Hardening In Smokers
January 2, 2006 — Dark chocolate may stave off artery hardening in smokers, and a few squares every day could potentially cut the risk of serious heart disease, finds a small study in ... > full story -
Team Maps Dark Matter In Startling Detail
December 12, 2005 — Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to map the location of invisible "dark matter" in unprecedented detail in two very young galaxy ... > full story -
Einstein's Dark Energy Accelerates The Universe
November 23, 2005 — The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research published today in the ... > full story -
SuperNova Legacy Survey: First Results Describing The Nature Of Dark Energy
November 23, 2005 — The SuperNova Legacy Survey collaboration started the largest survey to measure the distance of far supernovae. Distant supernovae are powerful tools to measure cosmological distances. The first ... > full story -
Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder'? New Supernovae Study Offers Tantalyzing Clues About Dark Energy
November 22, 2005 — The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research. The enigmatic dark ... > full story -
Hubble, Sloan Quadruple Number Of Known Optical Einstein Rings
November 17, 2005 — Astronomers have combined two powerful astronomical assets, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, to identify 19 new "gravitationally lensed" galaxies. Among these ... > full story -
Researchers Light Up 'Dark' Spins In Diamond; Discovery Could Lead To Room Temperature Quantum Computing
October 31, 2005 — Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have potentially opened up a new avenue toward room temperature quantum information processing. By demonstrating the ability to image and control single isolated ... > full story
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