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11 February 2009

SPACE

Should Mars be treated like a nature reserve? No life has yet been found on Mars, and no one is sure whether any will be. But we could still be looking at ways to ensure that if it’s there we don’t do it irreversible damage.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Antarctic bulge could flood Washington DC Rather than spreading out evenly across the oceans, water from melted Antarctic ice sheets could gather around North America and the Indian Ocean. That’s bad news for the US East Coast, which could bear the brunt of one of these oceanic bulges.

TECHNOLOGY

Robots’ navigation software…

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