Cosmic Web

NASA announces details of Hubble servicing mission Jan 08, 2008 NASA scientists and a space shuttle astronaut today outlined details of a challenging mission that will repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008.

Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web May 20, 2008 Although the universe contains billions of galaxies, only a small amount of its matter is locked up in these behemoths. Most of the universe's matter that was created during and just after the Big Bang must ...

New Study Finds Increasing Acidification of Pacific Ocean’s Continental Shelf May 22, 2008 An international team of scientists surveying the waters of the continental shelf off the West Coast of North America has discovered for the first time high levels of acidified ocean water within 20 miles of the shoreline, ...

Spectrograph Team Awaits October Hubble Servicing Mission Aug 22, 2008 A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder that will be inserted on the Hubble Space Telescope during an October 2008 servicing mission should help astronomers better understand how galaxies, ...

New Simulation Poised to Chart the Staggered, Scattered Cosmic Dawn Sep 11, 2008 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new simulation method recently developed by Stanford astrophysicist Marcelo Alvarez and Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship student Patrick Ho spurns complexity to make headway in ...

Arctic soil reveals climate change clues Oct 08, 2008 Frozen arctic soil contains nearly twice the greenhouse-gas-producing organic material as was previously estimated, according to recently published research by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists.

When it comes to forest soil, wildfires pack 1-2 punch Oct 16, 2008 For decades, scientists and resource managers have known that wildfires affect forest soils, evidenced, in part, by the erosion that often occurs after a fire kills vegetation and disrupts soil structure. ...

Carefully designed home gets most energy from the sun Nov 03, 2008 Turn off State Park Road into this community of up-scale beachfront houses and you can see what makes life in the Grandview section of Hampton, Va., so attractive.