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The picture that pops up before our inner eye when we hear the word "satellite" is probably this: Two extended solar "wings" ...

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This year marks the English novelist's 250th birthday. Her hundreds of surviving letters—both real and fictional—offer ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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