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A weekly programme that illuminates the mysteries and challenges the controversies behind the science that's changing our world.

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BBC Inside Science: RIP Rosetta, The Descent of Aquatic Ape, The Ascent of Antikythera's Bones, HG Wells the Journalist

29/09/2016

RIP Rosetta, The Descent of Aquatic Ape, The Ascent of Antikythera's Bones, HG Wells the Journalist

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, RIP Rosetta, The Descent of Aquatic Ape, The Ascent of Antikythera's Bones, HG Wells the Journalist

Adam Rutherford hears about the end of Rosetta's two-year mission around comet 67P.

Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our world. He hears about the spectacular end of Rosetta's two-year mission around comet 67P.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission to a comet is about to end. Adam Rutherford discusses its discoveries and looks ahead to its imminent controlled slow-motion crash landing on comet 67P. Also in the programme - the marine excavation of human remains on a 2000 year old ship that sank with the extraordinary Antikythera mechanism: why most human evolution researchers don't rate the aquatic or waterside ape hypothesis: and H.G Wells, the science communicator.

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