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Science Weekly podcast: Playing God with nature

Alok Jha meets Dr Adam Rutherford to discuss his BBC Horizon documentary Playing God, which explores the exciting industrial potential and worrying moral dilemmas posed by synthetic biology. This new field's radical aim is "to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please". Alok is joined in the studio by Observer science editor Robin McKie to rake over some of...


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Starwatch: The astronomical year of 2012

The brilliant planet Venus stands some 20° above Britain's SW horizon at nightfall at present and features in perhaps the highlight astronomical event of the 2012. However, if this is Venus's year then Mars comes a close second.Nasa's ambitious Curiosity rover is due to touch down on the Red Planet's rusty surface on the morning of 6 August, UK time. Mars doubles in brightness this month as it...

Phobos-Grunt Mars probe falls into Pacific Ocean

Russian space agency had previously said that the stricken planetary rocket was most likely to fall into the AtlanticDebris from a failed Russian spacecraft fell into the Pacific Ocean far off Chile on Sunday, the state-run RIA news agency has quoted a Russian military official as saying.Pieces of the Phobos-Grunt craft, which never made it out of orbit after its launch on a mission to probe the...