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Martian orders

The crew for an 18-month simulated mission to Mars is taking shape. Two Europeans were added to the roster for the Mars 500 mission this week. In June, a six-member crew will step into a sealed chamber for 500 days at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow. Contact with the outside world will be limited to delayed email.

Secret summit-tapes

An audio recording of the closed negotiations that sealed the fate of the Copenhagen climate talks has been obtained by German magazine Der Spiegel. It gives a vivid flavour of the rift between the US and…

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