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Science chooses accelerating universe as “Breakthrough of the Year”

18 Dec 1998

Evidence that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, rather than slowing down as predicted by most theories, has been named "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science magazine. Two other breakthroughs in physics make the top ten: the discovery of neutrino mass and advances in quantum teleportation.

Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding, based on measurements of the &

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