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CHINA’S MARS ROVER SENDS FIRST IMAGES
n a day of exciting firsts and temporary setbacks, China managed to get a rover onto Mars, even as it had to delay some plans for its...

By The Financial District
May 22, 20212 min read


SCIENTISTS TO PEER AT FIRST GALAXIES USING JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE
The most powerful telescope ever built, the James Webb Space Telescope, is fully booked to peer at other planets and the origins of the...

By The Financial District
May 21, 20211 min read


U.S. LAUNCHES MISSILE DETECTION SATELLITE FROM FLORIDA
United Launch Alliance sent a new missile-warning satellite into orbit for the US Space Force from Florida on Tuesday afternoon.

By The Financial District
May 19, 20212 min read


DA EYES CONTROL OF TRANSBOUNDARY PESTS
The Department of Agriculture (DA) will continue to support research for development (R4D) efforts to effectively control and manage...

By The Financial District
May 19, 20212 min read


TRAFFIC NOISE MAKES BIRDS WORSE AT SINGING, GERMAN STUDY FINDS
We've known for decades just how damaging diesel and petrol fumes are for the environment and human health, but the impact of traffic...

By The Financial District
May 18, 20212 min read


DICT DISTRIBUTES LAPTOPS, TABLETS TO SAN JUAN
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) provided tablets, laptops and pocket Wi-Fi to the City of San Juan to...

By The Financial District
May 18, 20212 min read


LG GROUP TO INVEST $100M FOR ADVANCED AI TECH DEV’T
LG Group said it will invest more than $100 million in the next three years to establish massive high-performance computing...

By The Financial District
May 17, 20211 min read


CHINA 3RD NATION TO LAND PROBE ON SURFACE OF MARS
China has become the third country to safely land an unmanned probe on the surface of Mars after the Soviet Union and the United States.

By The Financial District
May 16, 20212 min read


VOYAGER 1 PICKS UP STRANGE ‘HUM’ IN INTERSTELLAR SPACE
Beyond the edge of the solar system, more than 14 billion miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft has detected a curious and persistent "hum"...

By The Financial District
May 13, 20212 min read


NASA SPACECRAFT STARTS 2-YEAR TRIP HOME WITH ASTEROID RUBBLE
With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday...

By The Financial District
May 11, 20212 min read


JAPAN DRUGMAKER SHIONOGI DEVELOPING COVID-19 VACCINE
Japanese drugmaker Shionogi & Co. is expecting to provide a coronavirus vaccine within the year if conditions are met, its president said.

By The Financial District
May 11, 20211 min read


POSSIBLE CURE TO CROP-KILLING BACTERIUM FOUND
Spanish scientists have isolated microorganisms that feed on bacteria and are able to eliminate Xylella fastidiosa, a plant pathogen that...

By The Financial District
May 10, 20211 min read


SPACEX SKYROCKETING DOGE-1 TO THE MOON
Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC) announced today the DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon—the first-ever commercial lunar payload in history paid...

By The Financial District
May 10, 20211 min read


CHINA ROCKET DEBRIS FALL INTO INDIAN OCEAN
A large Chinese rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere Sunday morning, with debris falling into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives but most...

By The Financial District
May 10, 20212 min read


IBM's 2-NANOMETER CHIPS HAVE TRANSISTORS SMALLER THAN DNA STRAND
In a shining example of the inexorable march of technology, IBM has unveiled new semiconductor chips with the smallest transistors ever...

By The Financial District
May 9, 20212 min read


COLOMBIA SHATTERS PHILIPPINES' 12-YEAR-OLD HEAVIEST MANGO RECORD
The world's heaviest mango has recently been found in Colombia, weighing in at 4.24 kilograms or 9.36 pounds and was certified as an...

By The Financial District
May 9, 20211 min read


28 U.S. STATES DEBATE HEALTHY SOIL INITIATIVES
Twenty-eight legislatures in the United States are debating healthy soil initiatives this year.

By The Financial District
May 9, 20212 min read


SIMPLE MEASURES COULD CUT GLOBAL WARMING FROM METHANE: UN
Simple and inexpensive measures could reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane by 30 percent by 2030, slowing the rate of global...

By The Financial District
May 8, 20211 min read


ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND BRONZE LAMP SHAPED LIKE A FACE
Archaeologists in Israel said Wednesday they recently found a rare, ancient bronze oil lamp in the City of David National Park that dates...

By The Financial District
May 7, 20212 min read


STATES PUSH BACK VS USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION BY U.S. COPS
US law enforcement agencies have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its...

By The Financial District
May 6, 20212 min read


THE ELON HAS LANDED: SPACEX ROCKET PROTOTYPE ACHIEVES 1ST SAFE LANDING AT LAST
SpaceX achieved the first successful touchdown of its prototype Starship rocket during the latest test flight of the next-generation...

By The Financial District
May 6, 20212 min read


UAE LUNAR ROVER TARGETS MOON LANDING NEXT YEAR
Japanese startup Ispace Inc. will deliver a lunar rover under development by the United Arab Emirates to the Moon next year in what will...

By The Financial District
May 5, 20211 min read


EPA RULE TO PHASE OUT POLLUTING GASES USED IN REFS, COOLANTS
The Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] is proposing to phase down the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons [HFCs], highly potent...

By The Financial District
May 4, 20211 min read


INDIAN SCIENTISTS WARN COVID MUTATIONS COULD ‘EVADE IMMUNE RESPONSE’
A forum of scientific advisers set up by the Indian government has told authorities about minor mutations in some samples of the...

By The Financial District
May 3, 20212 min read
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