China aims to build a more ubiquitous, integrated, and intelligent comprehensive system with the next generation BeiDou System (BDS) at its core by 2035 to provide efficient positioning, navigation and timing services, according to the China Satellite Navigation Annual Conference held in Beijing on Wednesday. With the theme of "digital economy, intelligent navigation," the annual […]
"My home is right next to the high school where he studied, and our kitchen faces the small room where he lived during his high school years. Every evening during dinner, I could hear him reciting and reading aloud. Through that window, I didn't know what I saw was a glimpse of a future astronaut." […]
Over the past nearly three years, Chinese police have closed a record 36,000 cases and detained 64,000 suspects related to violation of personal information as part of the country's efforts to combat cybercrime and protect citizens' privacy, China's Ministry of Public Security announced on Thursday. Since a special campaign to regulate the internet was launched […]
The deputy regional leader of Taiwan island Lai Ching-te, who is also a candidate of the separatist Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the 2024 Taiwan regional leader's election, has been snubbed by the US during his short stay in New York and his event to propagate separatism was given the cold shoulder as no senior […]
The separatist deputy regional leader of Taiwan island Lai Ching-te has been snubbed by the US, as he made a "stopover" in San Francisco on Thursday, his second during this trip, as his act of soliciting support from the US for "Taiwan independence" saw no participation of senior US political figures, with experts saying that […]
As flood-hit regions in North and Northeast China mobilize all efforts to restore production and people's normal lives, China's top disciplinary watchdog on Tuesday called for strengthened supervision and inspection of post-disaster relief funds to prevent misuse and ensure reconstruction efforts are carried out smoothly and efficiently. Since the end of July, Beijing, Hebei, Tianjin, […]
Chinese fishermen have appealed for a rational response after Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater triggered online attacks in response to selling home-grown seafood through livestream channels. "We really don't have contamination currently. The seafood from coastal waters is safe," a fisherman from East China's Zhejiang Province said in his livestream on Saturday morning as several […]
The Japanese government, which arbitrarily started dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea recently, is employing a combination of PR stunts at home and abroad in a bid to shift attention, create antagonism and turn itself from the culprit risking the global health and environment into an innocent victim of Chinese public opinion attacks by hyping […]
A new Mars probe is about to take off on a mission to hunt down chemical signs of life in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. On March 14, ExoMars is scheduled to depart from Kazakhstan for a seven-month journey to Mars, where it will spend several years orbiting the planet making an inventory of all gases […]
It has been eight months since the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto (SN Online: 7/15/15), but the discoveries keep trickling in. Mission scientists have now recapped the latest findings in five papers published online March 17 in Science. Science News has previously reported on many of these findings, but to mark those months of […]