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Telescopes and space missions News Flash Physics: Huge Martian ice deposit, Trump sets back climate science, ultra-transparent metamaterial Today's selection of need-to-know updates from the world of physics Read article: Flash Physics: Huge Martian ice deposit, Trump sets back climate science, ultra-transparent metamaterial
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