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Science 10 January 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5297, pp. 158 - 159
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5297.158b
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Research News

James Glanz

CHICAGO--Astronomers have withdrawn a dramatic claim made last year: that the early universe had 10 times more deuterium than other evidence suggested. Because the amount of this scarce hydrogen isotope created in the big bang is inversely related to the universe's total density of matter, the high levels, measured in a distant gas cloud, implied a surprisingly rarefied universe. But it now appears that the researchers may have misinterpreted the cloud's spectrum.

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