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The teamwork of precision

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A new value for the atomic mass of the electron is a link in a chain of measurements that will enable a test of the standard model of particle physics with better than part-per-trillion precision. See Letter p.467

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Myers, E. The teamwork of precision. Nature 506, 440–441 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13059

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