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ContemporaryBriefing
Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Prehistory Faster Than Textbooks Can Follow
Genomes recovered from bone are settling arguments archaeology could not settle, and starting several new ones. An ong…
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Near FutureMission
Europa Clipper and the Case for Oceans Under Ice
Jupiter's moon Europa probably holds more liquid water than every ocean on Earth combined, beneath a shell of ice. A s…
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ClassicalAnalysis
The Library of Alexandria and What Was Actually Lost
The most famous library in history did not burn down in a single night. What happened to it is slower, less dramatic, …
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Near FutureMission
Planetary Defence: We Have Now Moved an Asteroid
In 2022 a spacecraft hit a small asteroid hard enough to change its orbit. It was a test, it worked better than predic…
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Space AgeOverview
Apollo: How Twelve People Walked on the Moon
The programme that took human beings to another world in under a decade, what it actually required, and why nobody wen…
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Near FutureMission
Artemis: The Plan to Return to the Moon
NASA's programme to put crews back on the lunar surface, this time near the south pole and this time to stay. Dates ar…
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ContemporaryBriefing
Reading the Burned Library of Herculaneum
Hundreds of scrolls carbonised by Vesuvius have been unreadable for two centuries. Scanning and machine learning have …
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Near FutureMission
Mars Sample Return: The Hardest Delivery Ever Attempted
Rock cores are already sealed and waiting in Jezero Crater. Getting them to a laboratory on Earth requires a launch fr…
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