It may have a billion users by this summer or about one out of seven people in the known universe.
As most beings in the known universe do know, coffee is a brewed beverage with a distinct aroma and flavor.
When she was a child a century ago, the known universe extended only to the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.
And when they do, the most complicated object in the known universe will begin to give up the secrets of how it really works.
Mars is the only other earth-like planet in the known universe.
He then designed Baghdad according to a cosmological plan, with his own celestially-domed palace located, as it were, at the centre of the then known universe.
The entire known universe has far fewer than 10400 molecules.
Forty years ago I received my medical degree from Cornell University Medical College on a similar spring day at the NY Hospital in Manhattan, epicenter of my known universe.
Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity in 1916, offering a description of gravity, space and time that transformed how scientists understand the physical laws governing the known universe.
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Mars is more like Earth than any other place in the known universe, and while astronomers now believe there may be millions of earth-like planets in our galaxy, Mars is the only one that is within reach.
In pre-modern China, emperors demonstrated their dominance by re-creating rival territories within their own: Sprawling imperial parks, which featured flora and fauna assembled from remote lands, buttressed rulers' authority by showing their ability to both create and possess an elaborate facsimile of the known universe.
Based on information from the GALEX program, astronomers have crowned spiral galaxy NGC 6872 the largest known spiral galaxy in the universe.
To add to the experience, The World of Bond featurette will also offer a Pop-Up Trivia option to challenge even the sharpest of fans with little known facts and interesting trivia from the Bond Universe.
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This allows it to establish precise details of the universe's composition that were previously known only roughly.
Part of their explanation is that the universe started with a cosmic explosion, known as the Big Bang.
Swartz is coming from a radically different place in the universe of corporate America: Timberland is known for emphasizing policies on socially and environmentally sustainable consumption and production.
The hottest virtual market around today seems to be in Entropia Universe, a space bound MMO best known for having an actual working economy based on real money, which results in headlines like this.
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Copernicus' heliocentric system overthrew what was known as geocentrism the belief that everything in the universe revolved around the earth.
Perhaps a switch to the still-well-known but not-nearly-as-efficient Russell 2000 universe might help.
In the Obamaian universe, the life force is a fairly weird contraption known as the Keynesian Multiplier.
The SETI Institute, a private non-profit, best known for its ties to the eponymous search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe, is looking to add a little bit of audience participation to the act of naming Pluto's newly discovered moons, which sport those rather uninspired alphanumeric designations.
At a fundamental level, it also supports an "add-on" to this Big Bang theory known as inflation, which postulates that in the very first moments of its existence the Universe opened up in an exponential manner - faster than light itself.
For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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This led to the discovery of the top quark, the heaviest elementary particle seen to date and the penultimate piece of the jigsaw puzzle known as the Standard Model that is the best description physicists have of the basic components of the universe.
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His best-known work on wave mechanics known as "Schrodinger's Equation" goes some way to explaining the inter-connectivity of the universe at a quantum level.
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The visible matter in the universe (stars) adds up to less than 5 percent of the total mass that is known to exist from many other observations.
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