Freese has investigated the fate of future life in an accelerating universe. Whereas life cannot persist if the dark energy is constant in time, as long as it decreases in time, life should be able to go on (but certainly not as we know it!). Journalist Philip Ball in New Scientist said: “Katherine Freese and William Kinney may not look much like superheroes, but they may have just saved the fate of life in the universe.”