The beginning of the end caused by a meteor strike started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota. Then, tiny glass beads began to fall like birdshot from the heavens. The rain of glass was so heavy it may have set fire ...
Science has primarily focused on creating machines visible to our eyes. Today, research in DNA nanomachines is booming thanks to the immense potential the field holds for human society. The technology focuses on building DNA-sized machines capable of doing things that are impossible with the standard machines we are accustomed to. For instance, researchers have ...
Today, buildings are constructed by human workers brick by brick. A few decades from now, entire cities will be built by AI robots that mimic nature, according to a report published in Science Robotics. The report was prepared by Dr. Mirko Kovac, who directs the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at the Imperial London College in the ...
Thousands of school students across the world have been skipping classes over the past weeks, angry at the governments. Their demand? They want politicians to act on climate change. The protests were sparked by a 16-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, who camped outside her country’s parliament last August and accused the lawmakers of not honoring ...
When the Chinese movie The Wandering Earth hit the domestic box office in February, it set some brand new records. Within its first week, the movie collected US$349 million. Despite this strong performance in the mainland, The Wandering Earth has received a lukewarm response from moviegoers in Hong Kong. No takers for a Chinese blockbuster? ...
The earliest soccer game originated from the Linzi region of the Qi state during the Zhou Dynasty in China over 2,300 years ago. Its ancient name was cuju. Cuju was first mentioned in the historical texts Annals of the Warring States and Records of the Grand Historian in which the sport was clearly recorded as ...
Germany’s defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, has warned Russia that it is at risk of China’s medium-range missiles. Her comments come on the backdrop of America and Russia pulling out from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The problem with the INF treaty The INF treaty was signed by the U.S. and the Soviet ...
On March 10, 1959, Tibetans started revolting against Chinese occupation of the region. Though the uprising was violently crushed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Tibetans across the world hold this day dear to their hearts. Fearing a similar large-scale protest in Tibet since this year is the 60th anniversary of the uprising, the Chinese regime ...
China has been conducting real-time tracking of over 2.5 million residents in the Xinjiang region according to a data leak. Xinjiang has been in the news in recent years because of the inhumane treatment suffered by Uyghur Muslims in the region at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tracking people in Xinjiang SenseNets, a ...
China’s attempt at using Confucius Institutes to expand its communist influence in the U.S. received a huge backlash with the release of a bipartisan Senate report by a Homeland Security subcommittee. It suggests shutting down the institutes until major changes are implemented. Confucius Institutes, a danger Confucius Institutes are present in over 100 U.S. universities ...
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