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The last of Nature's celebrations of its 125th anniversary, a conference in Japan last week, uncovered Japan's discontent with the condition of the national universities.
The belief that the Sun will eventually mechanically engulf the orbit of the Earth may be misplaced, but even the coming billion years could bring discomfort to the Earth's inhabitants.
