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Amazing what can be made from a bit of background noise in the GEO600 with a bit of imagination (or desire). Intriguing article from 12 months ago. No new information since....

Find out if any upcoming solar storms are approaching.

A celestial audit suggests that astronomers' inventory of luminous bodies may soon be complete (reprint of 3/02 article)

A virus was recently shown to cause a rare type of human cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma. Does it also cause a more common type of cancer?

Is there something special about exact supersymmetry that precludes complex life?

galactic collisions

The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made ("bolshoi" is the Russian word for "great" or "grand").  The first two of a series of research papers describing Bolshoi and its implications have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The first data release of Bolshoi outputs, including output from Bolshoi and also the BigBolshoi or MultiDark simulation of a volume 64 times bigger than Bolshoi, has just been made publicly available to the world's astronomers and astrophysicists.

Future expeditions to the moons of Jupiter and MaRS