« Relative decline of science PhDs | News Picks home | Device physics: Nanowires' display of potential »

Closing In on Dark Energy?

ScienceNow: Is an enigmatic force called dark energy speeding the universe's expansion? An international team of more than 50 astronomers has brought us one step closer to an answer by computing the velocity of thousands of galaxies. Scientists hail the technique as a powerful new tool that can gauge how dark energy opposes gravity.

Posted by Physics Today on January 31, 2008 2:47 PM |

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2277

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Before submitting your comment, please enter the security code displayed below; this prevents spambots from hijacking The News Picks blog. (If you submit a comment without entering the security code, you will see a "Comment Submission Error" message; please use your back button to go back, enter the code, and re-submit your comment).

Request product info

COMPANY SPOTLIGHT