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30th January 2020
2021 – China's first mission to Mars
China's first independent Mars probe is launched in July 2020 and scheduled for arrival in April 2021. The mission includes a rover with Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR), able to scan as deep as 100 m (330 ft) below the surface.
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28th January 2020
2020 – First flight of Ariane 6
Ariane 6 is a new launch vehicle operated by the European Space Agency. It replaces Ariane 5 at half the cost, and allows double the number of launches per year.
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21st January 2020
Capitalism: more harm than good?
A new survey reveals that despite a strong global economy and near full employment, a majority of respondents in every developed market do not believe they will be better off in five years' time, and 56% believe that capitalism in its current form is now doing more harm than good in the world.
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14th January 2020
World's first "living robots"
Scientists have taken living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. These tiny "xenobots" can move around and even heal themselves if damaged.
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14th January 2020
Record fall in U.S. cancer death rate
The American Cancer Society reports a 2.2% drop in the cancer death rate between 2016 and 2017, the largest single-year decline in mortality for this disease ever recorded in the United States.
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