dark matter

How High the Moon? 4 October 2013

Book Review: ‘Dreams of Other Worlds’ by Chris Impey and Holly Henry
Where the Milky Way’s missing arms went and other tales of astronomical discovery.
[Wall Street Journal]

Modern-day aether? 5 February 2004

A cosmological conundrum
What if the dark energy and dark matter essential to modern explanations of the universe don’t really exist?

What’s the universe made of? 10 April 2003

Seeing in the dark
A new computational model, unveiled at a meeting of the American Physical Society, finds that dark matter in the universe is highly organised.
Plus a box on the structure of the proton. >>