Risk of asteroid impacts is ‘much higher’ than previous assessment suggested, as researchers urge decision makers to think ‘long-term’.
Risk of asteroid impacts ‘much higher’ than previous assessment suggested, as researchers urge decision makers to think ‘long-term’
Large, fixed-wing MA60s were built by AVIC and can be used for water drops, fire monitoring, communications command and transport.
The National Institutes of Health is taking steps to repair relations with Asian researchers, but damage is ‘long-lasting and almost irreversible’, scientist says.
ActFound performed better in tests than competing models and could offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.
Ex-Harvard professor Charles Lieber, targeted under now-axed China Initiative, says he is exploring opportunities at ‘several institutions’.
Government report finds number of native fish and protected wildlife species up over previous year, but there is much room for improvement.
A Taiwanese manufacturer finds a way to recycle discarded oyster shells into ‘seawood fabric’.
Chinese scientists working with the PLA receive signals transmitted from 30km away, achieving data transmission speed of 4,000 bps.
The technique, developed following a study of samples brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, could be a key step to building a lunar base.
Zhang Xiangyu is a specialist in intelligent applications to power systems, and has joined Southeast University in Nanjing.
The satellites were presumed lost when they were not delivered to their destination tens of thousands of kilometres above the moon in March.
Insights gleaned after collaborative study of 1,063 patients’ genetic material could lead to better early screening for colorectal cancer: genomics firm.
Findings could lead to new treatments for dopamine transporter-related disorders and addiction to drugs such as cocaine, according to researchers.
Industry experts believe the team’s findings could mark a pivotal shift away from silicon-based computing solutions.
Steady declines in the planet’s primary heat source point to a ‘pivotal reorganisation’ of the climate system almost 1 million years ago, researchers say.
Researchers said that some areas of the ‘Asian water tower’ will see more than half of their glaciers melting by the end of the century.
Scientists say they have come up with a simple, cylindrical device that can control one of the biggest challenges to hypersonic flight.
The team unearthed hundreds of stone tools made using a distinctive technique that helped early humans shape and sharpen their blades.
The magnetic system would operate in the same way as an Olympic hammer thrower to send lunar resources back to Earth.
Nearly 40 per cent of world’s cities face more severe droughts now than in 1980, pointing to need for sustainable urban design and planning.
Study reported in Nature journal may explain why some galaxies continue to grow for a long time while others go passive and dormant.
