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Cosmic Questions additional references

By Science News

Books:

Brian Green. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos. Knopf 2011. Read the review.

Marcia Bartusiak. The Day We Found the Universe. Pantheon 2009. Read the review.

Richard Panek. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011. Read the review.

Review papers:

Jonathan L. Feng. “Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection.” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. September 2010.

Wendy L. Freedman and Barry F. Madore. “The Hubble Constant.” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. September 2010.

Jonathan L. Feng, Jean-Francois Grivaz and Jane Nachtman. “Searches for Supersymmetry at High-Energy Colliders.” Reviews of Modern Physics. March 2010.

Past SN Coverage:

Ron Cowen. “Plank by Planck.” Science News. April 11, 2009, p. 16.

Ron Cowen. “Mining for Missing Matter.” Science News. August 28, 2010, p. 22.

Diana Steele. “When Worlds Collide.” Science News. June 7, 2008, p. 23.

Websites:

UCLA professor Ned Wright’s cosmology tutorial, including frequently asked questions: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm.

WMAP’s universe tutorial: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/