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Cosmic Questions additional references
Books: Brian Green. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Knopf 2011. Read the review. Marcia Bartusiak. The Day We Found the Universe. Pantheon 2009. Read the review. Richard Panek. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt […]
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Mission: reveal the secrets of the universe
The Objective For millennia, people have turned to the heavens in search of clues to nature’s mysteries. Truth seekers from ages past to the present day have found that the Earth is not the center of the universe, that countless galaxies dot the abyss of space, that an unknown form of matter and dark forces […]
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Tools for the mission
Hunting data A number of instruments now operating or proposed can troll the skies or otherwise help to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the universe. Planck A European Space Agency observatory launched in 2009, Planck is recording a more detailed picture of the cosmic microwave background, the relic radiation left over from […]
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Life in black holes, energy from dark matter and other intriguing possibilities in this week's news
- Chemistry
Plants and predators pick same poison
Zygaena caterpillars and their herbaceous hosts independently evolved an identical recipe for cyanide.
- Life
Penguin declines may come down to krill
Lack of food appears to be hurting birds on the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Science & Society
Humans
Western views of fat adopted around the world, a link between a messy environment and stereotypes, and more in this week's news
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
American Association for Cancer Research
Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Forecasting volcanic eruptions, plus saving mangroves and long-distance pollution in this week’s news.
- Physics
Screwy symmetry revealed
Math trick that reverses spirals and other shapes that twist and turn should provide new ways to understand and design materials.
- Math
Cells take on traveling salesman problem
With neither minds nor maps- chemical-sensing immune players do well with decades-old mathematical problem, a computer simulation reveals.
