Articles tagged "dark energy"

The void looks back.

The Dark Energy Camera is just what it sounds, and then even a bit more. Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the phone booth-sized 570 megapixel camera, the tool of the "Dark Energy Survey":https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/ collaboration, is designed

For all of the pop culture, mainstream buzzing devoted to the Higgs boson, it seems almost bizarre that at least some amount of comparable attention isn't devoted to dark matter and dark energy. Is that the price tag that comes with high energy colli…

Excuse the crass headline, but William Shatner "posed the question to us":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/16/motherboard-tv-william-shatner a couple days ago. To him, and possibly to you, it's the biggest mystery in the universe. So, to appease hi…

Turns out creating light isn't such a divine act after all. Not in the sense of powering on a lightbulb or firing up a star or discharging some static electricity. No, creating light in the Genesis "let there be light" sense. Light from nothing at al…

Three more scientists got the Nobel nod today, this round for physics. The winners: Saul Perlmutter of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., Brian P. Schmidt of the Australian National University in Weston Creek, Australia,

It's been scarcely a decade since science discovered that the universe is not only expanding but expanding faster and faster, theorizing further that the culprit is a strange unknown _something_ called dark energy. Dark energy is the biggest part of

OK, you can exhale. "New measurements":http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/mar/HQ_11-073_Hubble_Dark_Energy.html taken by the Hubble space telescope have ruled out one of a couple of alternate explanations of dark energy, and it appears that our con…