May 19 2011
NASA Installs Cosmic Ray Hunter on Space Station
A new tool to look at the universe debuted Thursday, with the installation of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, nicknamed AMS, on the International Space Station.
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May 19 2011
Dark Energy Is Real: Claim
Albert Einstein was right: Dark energy is constant throughout the universe and causing it to expand.
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Apr 22 2011
LHC Smashes ‘Beam Intensity’ World Record
CERN's powerful accelerator has pushed particle physics into a new, powerful era.
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Apr 21 2011
Listening to the Symphony of the Stars with SKA
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) will be the size of a continent and potentially turn our view of the Universe upside down.
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Apr 18 2011
What Will the Universe Look Like in One Trillion Years?
A trillion years from now the universe will be a much simpler place for far-future astronomers to ponder.
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Mar 21 2011
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Just after the Big Bang, the Universe's dimensions may have been completely different to the four-dimensional space-time we know and love today.
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Mar 21 2011
Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Just after the Big Bang, the Universe's dimensions may have been completely different to the four-dimensional space-time we know and love today.
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Feb 17 2011
Dark Energy Hunt Gets a New Tracker
Dark energy is not directly detectable, but scientists can track its footsteps through history.
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Oct 25 2010
HETDEX Will Ferret Out True Nature of Dark Energy
The search for an explanation for the nature of dark energy received a boost last week when funding was announced for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment.
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Oct 07 2010
Mission Complete! WMAP Fires its Thrusters for the Last Time
After nine years of mapping the slight temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background radiation, WMAP's job is done and has been sent into a "graveyard orbit" around the sun.
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