Day: March 30, 2025

UK News: Airbus also built the Rosalind Franklin rover, due to launch in 2028 to search for signs of past life

Europe’s first rover to be sent to another planet is back on track to reach Mars, with the lander that will deposit it on the surface lined up to be built in the UK.

The Rosalind Franklin rover – named after the scientist who played a key role in the discovery of the structure of DNA – is part of ExoMars, a European Space Agency (Esa) mission to probe whether life once existed on the red planet, and features a drill to retrieve samples, up to 4bn years old, from two metres below the surface. Continue reading…
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UK News: Billboards in Birmingham cite party leader’s remarks about a new funding model as local elections campaigning begins

Labour has begun an all-out assault on Nigel Farage over his views on the NHS in the run-up to key elections in May, as the Reform UK leader prepared to host what is billed as his party’s biggest ever rally in Birmingham.

In a coordinated campaign before Farage spoke at a 10,000-person event in the city on Friday evening, Labour paid for nearly a dozen billboard posters around the city with messages about his talk about replacing the NHS with an insurance-based healthcare system. Continue reading…
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Saturday’s action marked the first attempt to surround all 277 Tesla showrooms and service centres in the US in the hopes of deepening a recent decline in the company’s sales.
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The death toll from the earthquake that hit Myanmar on Friday has claimed the lives of at least 1,644 people and injured 2,376, according to the country’s ruling military junta.
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