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

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

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One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...