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A combination of two Nobel ideas circumvents the trade-off between power and accuracy in ultraviolet spectroscopy.

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Figure 1: Ramsey-comb spectroscopy.

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Diddams, S. Combs grow bigger teeth. Nature Phys 10, 8–9 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2852

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