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In Search of Dark Matter Galaxies websnapr

"Understanding dark matter, a major goal for cosmology, comes down to figuring out how normal matter interacts with its mysterious counterpart."
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http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/14/gormenghast/

Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast and Titus Alone websnapr

David Louis Edelman takes a look at these unique classics of genre literature.
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http://www.physorg.com/news88939401.html

Dark Energy And The Inverse Square Law websnapr

“Dark energy is an unknown driving force behind the acceleration of the universe, and we’re measuring the inverse-square law below the dark-energy length scale to look for a possible new gravitational
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6235751.stm

Hubble makes 3D dark matter map websnapr

"Astronomers have mapped the cosmic "scaffold" of dark matter upon which stars and galaxies are assembled." Now that is pretty damn cool.
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http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=924

Dark Matter’s Challenge websnapr

"The scope of what we don’t know is phenomenal. Dark matter calls into question our understanding of mass, and demands that we explain how the visible objects in the universe achieve the configur
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http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10636&feedid=online-news_rss20

Milky Way's dark matter modelled in best detail yet websnapr

"Small clouds of the stuff are thought to have coalesced after the big bang, and then gradually merged together. When enough dark matter is gathered into a huge "halo", it attracts ordi
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http://cosmicvariance.com/2006/11/16/dark-energy-has-long-been-dark-energy-like/

Dark Energy Has Long Been Dark-Energy-Like websnapr

"Dark energy, which is apparently about 70% of the energy of the universe ... is characterized by two features — it’s distributed smoothly throughout space, and maintains nearly-constant density
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http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/47/

Dark blemish on Uranus websnapr

Couldn't resist the childish headline ... big old storm on the outer planet, according to Hubble pictures.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/ns-dm090606.php

Dark matter 'proof' called into doubt websnapr

"Moffat claims that his MOG theory can explain the Bullet cluster without an ounce of dark matter." Well, they're disagreeing, but at least it's not about the definition of an arbitrary anci
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Terra Preta: Black is the New Green websnapr

Worldchanging reports on a rare and special soil from the Amazon basin. It stores two and a half times the carbon of regular soil, and it could revolutionise the way we grow crops for fuel.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/ns-abh071906.php

Are black holes at the center of galaxies? websnapr

Or is it actually a big lump of axions, which may or may not be something to do with tha 'dark matter' stuff that everyone is so desperate to find?
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http://www.everwonder.com/david/wizardofoz/

Dark Side of Oz websnapr

I'd heard this as a rumour before, but here's the proof. Run 'The Wizard of Oz' and Floyd's 'Dark Side...' in parallel, and watch the sychronicities explode
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/eso-fot070306.php

Falling onto the dark websnapr

Huge and distant anomolous cosmological 'blob' could be a galaxy being born.
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http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9337&feedid=online-news_rss20

Antimatter and dark matter are new probe's prey websnapr

A look at the PAMELA probe's mission. Thanks to Centauri Dreams for the tip-off.
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http://www.physorg.com/news69418645.html

Pamela Goes to Space to Explore Dark Matter and Antimat ... websnapr

No, not Tommy Lee's pneumatic missus - it's another satellite with a silly name.
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