[RightWingAtheist]

The original title at Sloan's website was "Cosmic Clumping: Sloan Digital Sky Survey measurements of gas between the galaxies bolsters the case for inflation and dark energy, and improves the case limiting neutrino mass " Needless to say, that was too long, so I had to use the title Fermilab used in its News Archive list. Click on the source link the see some neat graphics, as well as the list of contributors.

[Red Badger]

...and the possibility that the universe will be torn apart by a big rip in the future is substantially reduced by these new results," said Alexey Makarov

Whew!, Boy,I'm so relieved!......

[r9etb]

Filaments of gas between the quasars and the Earth absorb light in the quasar's spectra, allowing researchers to map the gas distribution and to measure how clumpy the gas is on scales of one million light years.

I presume they've got some means of accounting for the motion of the gas filaments over millions of years.... Otherwise, you have to wonder about their conclusions.

[RightWingAtheist]

Ping

[Physicist]

No evidence of dark energy changing in time has emerged so far, and the possibility that the universe will be torn apart by a big rip in the future is substantially reduced by these new results

Bummer. I was hoping that a big rip was in our future. Then, assuming a mechanism exists for quenching the expansion, the rip that destroys our universe (which was used up anyway, by that time) would become the inflation that creates the next universe. But as I always say, the universe is the way it is, and not how I would wish it to be.