Read article 'BOSS gives clearer view of baryon oscillations'
In November the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) released its second major result of 2012, using 48,000 quasars with redshifts (z) up to 3.5 as backlights to map intergalactic hydrogen ...
Read article 'The 4% Universe. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality.'
John Swain reviews in 2012 The 4% Universe. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality.
Read article 'Baryon oscillation spectra for all'
By professional astronomy standards, the 2.5 m telescope at Apache Point Observatory is quite small. More than 50 research telescopes are larger and many are located at much better sites.
Read article 'XENON100 sets record limits'
The XENON collaboration has announced results that provide no evidence for the existence of weakly interacting massive particles.
Read article 'The DarkSide of Gran Sasso'
Towards new levels of sensitivity in detecting dark-matter particles.
Read article 'Shedding light on dark matter'
Dark matter may constitute 83% of the particles in the universe, but so far there has been no direct observation of its presence in experiments.
Read article 'Saul Perlmutter: from light into darkness'
The Nobel laureate on the discovery behind dark energy.
Read article 'Dark Energy: Theory and Observations'
Introducing the relevant theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is ideally suited to graduate courses on dark energy, as well as supplement advanced cosmology courses.
Read article 'Gran Sasso becomes a workshop WONDERland'
A report from a workshop to discuss directions in dark-matter research.
Read article 'CAST’s first decade of solar-axion research'
The ingenious project based on X-ray astronomy, particle physics and an LHC magnet.
