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  1. Humans

    Letters from the December 10, 2005, issue of Science News

    Big Bang bashing The recent discovery of “mature” galaxies at distances corresponding to the remote cosmic past (“Crisis in the Cosmos? Galaxy formation theory is in peril,” SN: 10/8/05, p. 235) threatens more than galaxy-formation theory. It threatens to shatter the increasingly fragile Big Bang paradigm by showing that the composition of the cosmos is […]

    By Science News
  2. Planetary Science

    Martian dust storm

    In late October, a day after Mars and Earth were at their closest approach until 2018, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a large dust storm on the Red Planet.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Health & Medicine

    New malaria vaccine is off to promising start

    An experimental malaria vaccine has been shown to induce a strong immune response in people.