Light at the edge of the universe: dispatches from the front lines of cosmology

Will the universe expand forever? Or will it collapse in a Big Crunch within the next few billion years? If the Big Bang theory is correct in presenting the origins of the universe as a smooth fireball, how did the universe come to contain structures as large as the recently discovered ""Great Wall"" of galaxies, which stretches hundreds of millions of light years? Such are the compelling questions that face cosmologists today, and it is the excitement and wonder of their research that Michael Lemonick shares in this lively tour of the current state of astrophysics and cosmology. Here we vi

The ozone vanishes. by Michael D. Lemonick

And not just over the South Pole. A hole in earth's protective shield could soon open above Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Britain, Canada and northern New England