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material with negative index of refraction: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/18/207253

(To be honest, I don't remember what the implications of this would be, and the article is unhelpful in this regard--informed geeks, feel free to refresh my memory. :) But it's clear that it's weird.)

universe may be small, finite, and shaped like a soccer ball?: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/17/0150223

deconstructing the physics of Buckaroo Banzai (and it's more complimentary than you might expect): http://www.geekazon.com/banzai/index.html
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CERN: General relativity vs. exotic dark matter

Summary: it appears that it may not be necessary to assume the existence of "dark matter" in order to explain certain astronomical observations.

Includes a link to the actual paper on the LANL preprint archive.

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