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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 ...

The explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, on 11 December 2005 was the biggest blast in the ...

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