The 2006 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced early this week. U.S. scientists swept the field.
PATCHWORK UNIVERSE. Measurements of slight variations in temperature in space (red indicates warmer than average, blue colder) provided the first glimpse of a nonuniform distribution of matter in the newborn cosmos that led to galaxies and galaxy clusters.
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