The Mars Science Laboratory’s mission to the planet is the latest in a series of operations that began more than three decades ago.
Rogue cells could be the foot soldiers of atavisms as old as the hills, writes <b>Paul Davies</b>.
As cancer progresses in the body, so more and more of the ancestral core within the genetic toolkit is activated.
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/ 16 September 2009
Nasa’s given up. But there is no shortage of scientists eager to take the next giant leap: a no-return mission to Mars.
Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth — the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. At issue are the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years physicists and cosmologists have been collecting examples of convenient “coincidences” and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist.