Families, business owners, students and politicians have opened up about how they coped through the COVID-19 pandemic, and the past 100 days since Tasmania’s last virus diagnosis. READ THEIR STORIES >>
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THERE are plenty of challenges in a mission to Mars — keeping the astronauts from wanting to kill each other is just one of them.
MARS has been “bounced and rolled over, shoveled and drilled into, smelled, baked, tasted, and laser zapped” — all that’s missing is the first human footprints in the dust. Is this what a Mars landing will be like?
RON Howard admits he once had romantic notions about the colonisation of Mars, now he believes it’s vital to our future.
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.
IT’S the greatest challenge mankind has ever undertaken, but a human expedition to Mars is looking less science fiction and more science fact.
WE have struggled to keep students in classrooms, but there is new hope that extending high schools to year 12 will help Tasmania arrest its alarming dropout rate. Will it pass the test? Or will politics send us back to the drawing board?
AS Ford prepares to close its local factories, here is the comprehensive illustrated look at the company in Australia — from the birth of the ute to the final Falcon, and everything in between.
THESE men want peace but they have an extensive arsenal to “protect” themselves, while police leave fingerprints on every car they stop — in case they are shot.
Protesters in Memphis raise their hands amid calls of “Hands up, don’t shoot” as they face off against police.
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