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Of all the darnage that will be done by France's tests of nuclear weapons in the Pacific, the most serious is that it will complicate and perhaps undermine the negotiation of a comprehensive test-ban treaty.
The latest measurements of the Hubble constant make the Big Bang account of the origin of the Universe more dependent on the coincidence of numbers than it has so far been. But it remains the only theory in the field.
