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In depth: December 2007

Features

Dark energy: the decade ahead

The enduring mystery of the accelerating universe

In praise of Lord Kelvin

David Saxon celebrates the great Victorian physicist

Opinion

Dark passions

Understanding the accelerating universe is almost as difficult as deciding who should gain credit for its discovery

A dark future for cosmology

Lawrence Krauss on why we will never understand the true nature of dark energy

Dark Energy

Robert P Crease describes the discovery of the accelerating universe

Reviews

The land before time

Do we live in a cyclic universe?