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For most of modern cosmology, scientists have worked with a surprisingly simple assumption: the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion has remained unchanged throughout cosmic ...

When Andreas Albrecht was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, he was looking for an advisor in particle physics ...

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This sketch is of the cosmic microwave background timeline of the universe in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model. The accelerated expansion shown in the last third of the timeline represents the dark ...