Thought you guys might be interested-- I'm part of the BOOMERANG collaboration, which is a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment. Measurements of the CMB can constrain models of structure formation and constrain cosmological parameters such as the density, geometry, contents, expansion rate, and age of the universe. We had a press release today, so you might be seeing our results in the news. I'd be happy to answer any questions about it and I'm curious to hear what everyone thinks about it (BOOMERANG, CMB, cosmology, etc.).

Our website is: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~boomerang/index.html which has a link to press images, a CMB intro and the nature article (we were the cover story).

Some "news" articles can be found at:
http://msnbc.com/news/399686.asp?cp1=1
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/universe000426.html

The MSNBC one was the best of those-- the ABC news one totally missed the point. NY Times should be coming out soon too.

Kim
ps. The CMB formed when the universe was about 300,000 years old.