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World’s Most Powerful Digital Camera Opens Eye, Records First Images in Hunt for Dark Energy
September 17, 2012 Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed ... > full story -
Dark Energy Is Real, Say Astronomers
September 12, 2012 Dark energy, a mysterious substance thought to be speeding up the expansion of the Universe is really there, according to a team of astronomers. After a two-year study, scientists conclude that the ... > full story -
Mathematicians Offer Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Altering Einstein Field Equations
September 6, 2012 A pair of mathematicians have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein's equations describing the fundamentals of gravity. They suggest the law of energy and ... > full story -
Quest for Higgs Boson Enters New Phase
September 4, 2012 This summer, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva announced the discovery of a new particle with a mass somewhere between 125 and 126 giga-electron volts, or 134 times the mass of the ... > full story -
Bitter Tastes Quickly Turn Milk Chocolate Fans Sour
August 30, 2012 Dark chocolate lovers can handle a wider range of bitter tastes before rejection compared to milk chocolate fans, according to food ... > full story -
Big Picture of the Universe Confirmed, WiggleZ Survey of More Than 200,000 Galaxies Shows
August 21, 2012 We know that stars group together to form galaxies, galaxies clump to make clusters and clusters gather to create structures known as superclusters. At what scale though, if at all, does this Russian ... > full story -
Recreating a Slice of the Universe: Computational Approach Follows Thousands of Galaxies Over Billions of Years
August 15, 2012 Scientists have invented a new computational approach that can accurately follow the birth and evolution of thousands of galaxies over billions of years. For the first time it is now possible to ... > full story -
This Is Not a Pipe: Curious Dark Pipe Nebula Seen as Never Before
August 15, 2012 Just as René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called ... > full story -
Quark Matter’s Connection With the Higgs: Heavy Ion Collisions Delve Deeper Into the Origin of (Visible) Mass
August 14, 2012 You may think you've heard everything you need to know about the origin of mass. After all, scientists colliding protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe recently presented stunning ... > full story -
Gamma Rays from Galactic Center Could Be Evidence of Dark Matter
August 13, 2012 Gamma-ray photons seen emanating from the center of the Milky Way galaxy are consistent with the intriguing possibility that dark-matter particles are annihilating each other in space, according to ... > full story
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