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This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

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The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...