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The former chancellor’s willingness to send them back to Greece could have a knock-on effect on the status of other objects in our museums

Greek ministers say secret talks have been under way for more than a year

Plus, the U.S. returns a looted sarcophagus to Egypt, and the British Museum rolls out a climate plan (while still taking petroleum money).

Plus, the British Museum prioritizes renovations to its crumbling Parthenon Marbles gallery, and the U.S. returns a looted statue to Cambodia.

The promise of a technologically advancing future is predicated on millennia of accumulated knowledge. How can we retain that knowledge?

Plans are being drawn up for the refurbishment, with its recently appointed chairman, former Chancellor George Osborne, seeking to raise funding.

Music in space And back to this one I N THE CASCADE mountains of northern California, a cluster of 42 radio telescopes points towards the stars, scanning for signs of life. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ( SETI) Institute has been listening for a signal here and elsewhere since it was founded in 1984. In that time it has scoured only a minuscule fraction of space, equivalent to a glass of water in all the world’s oceans. But Jill Tarter, its co-founder, is undaunted. A renowned ...