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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 -
Einstein's Theory 'Improved'?
February 14, 2006 — A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews has fine-tuned Einstein's groundbreaking theory of gravity, creating a 'simple' theory which could solve a dark mystery that has baffled ... > full story -
Darkness Unveils Vital Metabolic Fuel Switch Between Sugar And Fat
January 25, 2006 — University of Texas Medical School at Houston research team finds that constant darkness can regulate metabolism. The key molecule in this process, which switches most of the body's energy ... > full story -
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
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