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Nature 563, 451-452 (2018)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07424-8
Updates & Corrections
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Correction 16 November 2018: The headline of this story originally misstated when the last major overhaul of scientific units took place. It was in 1875, not at the time of the French Revolution.