An international group of cosmologists, the Virgo Consortium, has realized the first simulation of the entire universe, starting 380,000 years after the Big Bang and going up to now,

This issue includes two string related articles: The string-theory landscape on how String theorists have found a way to describe an accelerating universe by Fernando Quevedo, and Superstrings

Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have made the most precise measurement to date of the cosmic clustering of galaxies and dark matter, refining our understanding of the structure and evolution of the Universe.