The Boston Globe, March 21st, 2004
THESE SHOULD BE among the best days of Adam Riess's career. Riess, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, has helped spearhead ground-breaking research in recent years showing that a mysterious force called "dark energy" is rapidly pushing the universe apart. He has won a fistful of academic prizes, authored influential papers, and even gained recognition from the popular press: The December issue of Esquire, to Riess's bemusement, named him one of the country's "best and brightest." But Riess is also among a group of scientists who now face an abrupt halt to thei...
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