Top Physics Stories for 1998

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• the realization (based on observations of distant supernovas) that the cosmological expansion of the universe is not only not slowing but actually accelerating (355, 361)
• observation of neutrino oscillation (375)
• mapping of the cosmic infrared background (354)
• the localization of near-visible light (356)
• Bose-Einstein research (362, 382, 402)
• progress in quantum teleportation (356)
• the complementarity principle demonstrated for electrons (362)
• quantum computing used to perform simple searches (367)
• the detection of gamma rays from a high-magnetic-field pulsar (or "magnetar," 374, 394)
• the idea of chaos-based computing (389)
• Physics Nobel Prize (396)
• low-field MRI (398
• direct observation of time-reversal asymmetry (402)
• no end in sight for cosmic-ray energies (385)
• some indication of CP violation in B meson decays (475)