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The map has been released by the Dark Energy Consortium and the aim is to produce reference points for scientists to understand where dark matter is, what it is made from and to study the curious ...

Crispian Jago makes completely transparent attempts to get linked from blogs. The thing is, he keeps doing spectacular stuff! This time it’s a metro-subway-style map showing scientists of the past 400 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with its interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe,” that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the ...

A new catalogue of the visible Milky Way is the most detailed yet, charting 219 million distinct stars in the region we can see from Earth. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

Along a great arc sweeping from the equator in mid-Atlantic to Irkutsk in central Siberia, the sun will be in total eclipse on Feb. 25. Last week an expedition of scientists from the U.S. Air Force, ...

Events and armies were moving so fast last week that newspaper mapmakers could not keep up with them. According to the Brussels radio, many American tanks had outrun the maps they had and new ones had ...