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Books and articles about dark energy and dark matter.

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Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Cosmos, by Iain Nicolson; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe’s Missing Mass and Energy, by Dan Hooper; Smithsonian Books, 2006 The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos, by Robert P. Kirshner; Princeton University Press, 2000

Articles

"The End of Cosmology?" by Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer; Scientific American, March 2008

"Embracing the Dark Side: Looking back on a decade of cosmic acceleration," by Ron Cowen; Science News, February 2, 2008

"Dark Energy: The Decade Ahead," Physics World, December 3, 2007

"Cosmic Efforts Shed Light on Dark Universe," by David Bradley; StarDate, July/August 2007

"The Search for Dark Energy," by Marcus Woo; Symmetry (Fermilab), May 2007

"The Secrets of Dark Energy," by Meg Urry; Parade, May 27, 2007

"Out There," by Richard Panek; The New York Times Magazine, March 11, 2007

"In the Dark: A mysterious force is tearing the universe apart!" by Ed Regis; Air & Space/Smithsonian, February/March 2005