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Read article: COBE team wins cosmology prize Telescopes and space missions Research update COBE team wins cosmology prize Astrophysicists honoured for their work on the cosmic microwave background
Telescopes and space missions Research update Galaxy survey fails to add up Californian astronomers are bewildered by strange anomaly in number of galaxies
Transport properties Research update Atomic clocks feel the heat Physicists have calculated the tiny shift in the atomic transition frequencies of a caesium atom due to blackbody radiation
Read article: Astrophysicist and space pioneer dies Metrology Research update Astrophysicist and space pioneer dies James Van Allen has died at the age of 91
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