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A remarkable series of measurements of the photodissociation of a simple molecule points to a field in which experimentalists will have the advantage for a long time to come.
The good news is that the three-degree cosmic microwave background has the exact spectrum of black-body radiation, and is spatially featureless. The bad news is the same.