Number 38 (Story #2), June 21, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein ADDITIONAL DISTANT QUASARS have raised serious questions about the universe's evolution. Reports of 27 more quasars, each ten to twelve billion years old and with redshifts between 4 and 5, provide statistically significant evidence that the universe settled down into lumpy structures earlier than predicted by existing theories. The findings, made by two groups of astronomers at a recent quasar workshop in Victoria, British Columbia, suggest that the distribution of matter in the universe was as inhomogeneous only one billion years after the big bang as it is today. (Science News, 15 June 1991.)