by Mariëtte Le Roux When Europe’s comet chaser was launched in 2004, it boasted the name of the famous Rosetta stone, which had helped decipher hieroglyphics, the mysterious written language of the ancient Egyptians. The moniker was chosen because Rosetta, the spacecraft, would also be a decoder — unravelling the …
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