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Clyde F. Newman Jr., 87, Main Line ob/gynThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 6:03PMClyde Fairfax Newman Jr., 87, a gynecologist and obstetrician on the Main Line for 40 years, died of heart failure March 3 at White Horse Village, a retirement community in Newtown Square.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity passes biggest cosmic testThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 2:49AMAlbert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the hypothesis.

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity passes biggest cosmic testThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 1:51AMWashington, March 11 : Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the hypothesis.

Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into UniverseWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:50PMby Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra.

Einstein passes cosmic testWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 5:09PMBy Zeeya Merali It's another victory for Einstein -- albeit not a resounding one. [More]

Einstein passes cosmic testWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 12:39PMGeneral relativity fits survey observations but there's still room for its rivals.

Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute helps students reach for the starsWednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 6:03AMROSMAN — The small radio telescope at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute still sports a 15-foot smiley face painted on to taunt the cameras of passing Soviet satellites in the 1980s.

Cosmic CluesMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:28PMLast month astrophysicists at Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology presented their latest results from NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's observations of supernova remnants. And they think those results add to a growing body of evidence that cosmic ...

Primitive star discoveredMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 10:28AMCAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 8 (UPI) -- U.S. astronomers say they found a star containing 6,000 times fewer heavy elements than Earth's sun, meaning it formed very early in the universe's history.