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Don't miss: the art of science, vanishing cetaceans and edited humans

18 September 2019

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© Derby Museums Trust

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4 from 16 September, explores the relationship between art and science over the past 250 years. An accompanying exhibition at London’s Science Museum opens on 25 September.

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National Geographic

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, on limited UK release from 27 September, is a powerful documentary exposing the activities of Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers in poaching activities that are driving the world’s smallest porpoise, the vaquita, to extinction.

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(Harvard). Bioethicist Françoise Baylis wonders what the unintended consequences might be of well-intentioned medical projects that harness CRISPR technology to edit the human genome.

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