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Published online 27 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020520-11

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Life can go on forever

An accelerating universe does not have to fry life.

Life can carry on indefinitely. Physicists in the United States have come to the comforting conclusion that just because the universe is accelerating as it expands, this does not necessarily sound the death knell for life in the far future1, as some have claimed2.

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