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In 2019, a group of scientists led by Owen Toon, a professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University ...

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Your browser does not support the audio element. In 2013, a group of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered of cache of papyri as old as the Great Pyramid of ...

Hugh Roberts has died from cancer at the age of 76. Among his books were a collection of penetrating articles ...