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SPACE.com -- New View: Universe Suddenly Twice as Bright: May 15, 1:28pm 3 reviews astronomy
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080515-galactic-dust.html; New View: Universe Suddenly Twice as Bright
By Clara Moskowitz
Staff Writer
posted: 15 May 2008
12:35 p.m. ET

The universe is twice as bright as it appears, astronomers now suggest.

The light bulb went on when they calculated that dust blocks about the half the light emitted from stars and galaxies.

Astronomers have known about interstellar dust for a while, but they haven't been able to quantify just how much light it blocks. Now a team of researchers has studied a catalogue of galaxies and found that dust shields roughly 50 percent of their light.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Humans almost became two species: Apr 25, 5:16am 9 reviews anthropology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7358868.stm; WE DID SPLIT IN TWO - CONSERVATIVES & PROGRESSIVES!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Solar Systems look-alike found: Apr 7, 11:29am 10 reviews astronomy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7333155.stm; Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.

Meteorites Delivered the Seeds of Life - Space - redOrbit: Apr 7, 10:59am 1 review science
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1330031/meteorites_delivered_the_seeds_of_...; Meteorites Delivered the 'Seeds' of Life

Posted on: Monday, 7 April 2008, 09:35 CDT
Flash back three or four billion years -- Earth is a hot, dry and lifeless place. All is still. Without warning, a meteor slams into the desert plains at over ten thousand miles per hour. With it, this violent collision may have planted the chemical seeds of life on Earth.

Scientists presented evidence today that desert heat, a little water, and meteorite impacts may have been enough to cook up one of the first prerequisites for life: The dominance of "left-handed" amino acids, the building blocks of life on this planet.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Cosmic treasure trove revealed: Mar 11, 9:18am 3 reviews astronomy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7288463.stm; A Nasa space probe measuring the oldest light in the Universe has found that cosmic neutrinos made up 10% of matter shortly after the Big Bang.

Five years of study data also shows that the first stars took over half a billion years to light up the Universe.

WMAP launched in 2001 on a mission to measure remnants of light left over from the Big Bang.

Scientists say it is collecting a "treasure trove" of information about the Universe's age, make-up and fate.

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy probe (WMAP) is mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation in the sky. This is the oldest light in the Universe, shifted to microwave wavelengths as the Universe expanded over 13.7 billion years.

How the first stars switched on was a long, drawn-out process that took half a billion years
Dr Joanna Dunkley

Scientists say the Universe is bathed in this afterglow light, and its patterns across the sky contain details about the history, shape, content, and ultimate fate of the Universe.

WMAP provides new evidence that a sea of cosmic neutrinos flows throughout the Universe.

Dr Joanna Dunkley of the University of Oxford, UK, and Princeton University, US, is a member of the WMAP team.

She told the BBC News website: "We see patterns in light, light that has been travelling for billions of years, affected in the early infancy of the Universe by whatever the Universe was composed of at that point.

"We expected to see neutrinos. It's a nice piece of evidence that they are in the Universe at large and affecting the light signals we see."

Dilbert Comic Strip Archive - Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website by Scot…: Feb 2, 2:48pm 9 reviews humor
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20080201.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7203186.stm: Jan 25, 11:43am 6 reviews science
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7203186.stm; Synthetic life 'advance' reported
By Helen Briggs
Science reporter, BBC News

Mycoplasma bacteria (Image: Science Photo Library)
M. genitalium has one of the smallest known genomes
An important step has been taken in the quest to create a synthetic lifeform.

A US team reports in Science magazine how it built the entire DNA code of a common bacterium in the laboratory using blocks of genetic material.