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My body my choice – protest held against vaccination

February 20, 2021

Anti-vaccination protesters have gathered across Australia ahead of the launch of the country\’s coronavirus inoculation programme, BBC reported. Protests were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with participants chanting slogans like: \”My body, my choice.\” The rallies were largely peaceful, but police made several arrests in Melbourne, local media reported. The national rollout […]

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There\’s a new robot on the surface of Mars

February 19, 2021

The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet\’s equator called Jezero. \”The good news is the spacecraft, I think, is in great shape,\” said Matt Wallace, the mission\’s deputy project manager. Engineers at Nasa\’s mission control in California erupted with joy when the confirmation of touchdown

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Women in the north scale heights in rescue teams

February 18, 2021

Zofeen T. Ebrahim Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling. Any wrong move and you can start a rock fall,” she explained. Handling

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China\’s Tianwen 1 enters Mars\’ polar orbit

February 15, 2021

China\’s Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered the orbit above Mars\’ polar regions on Monday, moving closer to the red planet, the China National Space Administration said. The spacecraft activated its 3,000-Newton-thrust orbital-control engine at 5pm to conduct an orbital plane change maneuver to enter polar orbit with a perigee of about 265 kilometres above the

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Biden administration backs US Moon shot

February 6, 2021

President Joe Biden has endorsed the effort to return to the Moon that was initiated under his predecessor Donald Trump, BBC reported. There had been speculation over the direction the new administration might take on the Artemis programme. The plan would see the next man and the first woman land on the lunar surface in

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