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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.
