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Dark energy: the decade ahead

03 Dec 2007

Ten years after astrophysicists discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, further measurements have given us few clues into the nature of the dark energy that drives it. But, as Eric Linder and Saul Perlmutter describe, advances in observational techniques promise to shed light on this revolutionary physics in the decade ahead

Cosmic acceleration
A decade ago, the universe was diagnosed with a severe — possibly even terminal — case

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