Strap yourself in. We’re off to Mars
IT’S the greatest challenge mankind has ever undertaken, but a human expedition to Mars is looking less science fiction and more science fact.
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Building a Buzz about going to Mars
RADIATION sickness. Brittle bones. Alzheimers. None of these will deter explorers in their quest to establish a foothold on Mars, says Apollo 11 hero Buzz Aldrin.
Seeing red: Mars debate launched
MARS is hard. About half the robotic missions sent there so far have failed. So is the risk to human life worth a manned mission?
NASA warning system’s first alarm
EARTH will be ‘buzzed’ today by a 25m chunk of rock and ice — the first test for NASA’s new ‘intruder alert’ system designed to detect approaching asteroids.
Jihadists go ‘Mad Max’ in desperate battle
“MAD Max” style suicide drivers are leading Islamic State’s defence of the critical city of Mosul. Their armoured SUVs are facing battle tanks.
Israel claims First Temple relic find
TEMPLE Mount: It’s the hill at the heart of much of the Middle East’s turmoil. Now, for the first time, archaeologists say they have found evidence of King Solomon’s temple.
Astronomers report ‘flashing’ stars
TWO Canadian astronomers claim to have spotted ‘spectral modulation’ in more than 200 stars — evidence, they say, of alien civilisation. Others remain sceptical.
New virus mutates for urban life
ZIKA. Chikungunya. We’d never heard of these just a few years ago. Now another nasty virus is escaping the jungles — mayaro — and it’s already infected 100,000.
Priests flee from a devil of a job
THE world is under renewed attack by an army of demons and the battle is so intense young priests are too scared to engage in exorcisms, says a senior Vatican priest.
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