Recently, China conducted a critical test of its new lunar lander, Lanyue (“Embracing the Moon”), running the vehicle through a landing on and takeoff from a simulated lunar surface. What is it? Lanyue is China’s first crewed lunar landing vehicle, purpose-built to ferry astronauts between lunar orbit and the moon‘s surface. Standing on four legs, Lanyue is designed to transport …
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China has recorded 10,000 cases in an outbreak of a virus that is thought to be the largest of its kind on record in the country. The chikungunya virus is spread via mosquito bites, and symptoms can include fever, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, joint swelling and rash. Similar to dengue fever, the young and older people, as well as …
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Sylvia Chang BBC News Chinese, Hong Kong BBC Shui Zhou pays to go into an office every day No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led …
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A group of Chinese scientists has overcome a challenge that stumped biologists for decades by developing a new gene-editing tool that can precisely manipulate millions of base pairs – the building blocks of DNA. The innovation has been hailed as “very significant progress” by Professor Yin Hao, a gene editing specialist at Wuhan University’s medical research institute, who was not …
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Photo: CMSA Global Times learned from the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Thursday that China’s Lanyue lander successfully completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test at the extraterrestrial landing test site in Huailai county, North China’s Hebei Province on Wednesday. This test, the CMSA said, marks China’s first landing and takeoff experiment for a manned spacecraft on an …
Read More »China’s Mosquito Crackdown Tests a City’s Post-Covid Patience The New York Times Chikungunya virus: China reports 7,000 cases BBC China reports thousands of chikungunya cases amid outbreak of mosquito-borne virus Euronews.com Chinese city orders real-name registration for chikungunya fever medication amid outbreak South China Morning Post What to Know About Chikungunya Amid Southern China Outbreak of Mosquito-Borne Virus Time Magazine Source link
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Tesla vehicles are parked outside of a dealership on July 24, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Tesla‘s new car sales plummeted in both Britain and Germany in July, according to industry data published Tuesday, extending a protracted European downturn for the U.S. electric automaker. Data published by the U.K.’s Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) …
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Despite a July slowdown, BYD retains its lead in China’s competitive EV market. Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images China’s largest EV maker BYD posted its first monthly delivery decline this year, amid stiff competition from a price war that has attracted attention from policymakers in Beijing. While other major Chinese electric vehicle makers, including Li Auto …
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The southern Chinese province of Guangdong reported thousands of new cases of chikungunya fever last week as the local authorities promised “decisive and forceful measures” to stop the spread of the disease. According to state broadcaster CCTV, Guangdong reported 2,892 new cases in the week leading up to Saturday, with no severe or fatal infections. Most of those – 2,770 …
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Chinese engineers have unveiled the world’s first brain-like computer made up of more than 2 billion artificial neurons. The Darwin Monkey is the latest generation of brain-inspired computers produced by Zhejiang University researchers. “This is the world’s first brain-like computer based on a dedicated neuromorphic chip with more than 2 billion neurons,” the university said on its social media account …
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