The UK government is making provisions for an emergency alert due to concerns about an out-of-control Chinese rocket falling from space. Officials are keeping an eye on the debris from the Zhuque-3 rocket, which has a small chance of landing in Britain. Zhuque-3 was launched on 3 December 2025 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center…
Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida. Christa McAuliffe was to…
Listen to the birdsongs of Lantau HONG KONG (AP) — They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house’s rooftop. A flock has landed in Wang Tong Village, a peaceful corner of Lantau Island on Hong Kong’s southwestern edge. But this flock is unlike others: Its…
Alexey Amunts, whose pioneering work on mitochondrial ribosomes helped catalyse the cryo-electron microscopy “resolution revolution”, has left the Max Planck Institute in Germany to join China’s Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (SMART) this month. Amunts confirmed he had joined SMART as a senior investigator and would “contribute to its international relations agenda”. He…
China is about to send humanoid robots to work at a busy border with Vietnam. UBTECH Robotics has won a $37 million contract, to deploy its Walker S2 machines there starting this month. The assignment is led by UBTECH Robotics Corp., a Shenzhen-based company that builds full-size humanoid robots for industry and public services. …
Chinese archaeologists have uncovered a remarkably preserved section of an ancient imperial highway built more than 2,200 years ago—an infrastructure marvel now being hailed as the ancestor of modern expressways. The discovery sheds new light on the extraordinary engineering capabilities of the Qin Dynasty, the empire that unified China for the first time in history….
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Friday that a post-doctoral researcher in the U.S. on a visa was charged with allegedly smuggling Escherichia coli (E. coli) into the country and making false statements about it. Patel identified the post-doctoral researcher as Youhuang Xiang, but did not name…
TOKYO (AP) — Popular twin pandas at a Tokyo zoo are set to return to their homeland in China in late January, officials said Monday, leaving Japan without a panda for the first time in about half a century. Prospects for their replacement are not favorable either as ties between the two countries have deteriorated….
GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The opening ceremony of the 2025 Greater Bay Area Science Forum was held in Guangzhou on December 7. Under the theme “Industry Research Integration Drives Smart Innovation in the GBA”, the forum is set to forge an innovation ecosystem with extensive government-industry-academia-research-user collaboration while charting practical courses…
HONG KONG (AP) — An unmanned, oval-shaped craft from flying taxi maker EHang hovers, whirring noisily like a mini-helicopter over a riverside innovation zone on the outskirts of the southern Chinese business hub of Guangzhou, part of a trial of a mini-flying taxi that once might have been found only in sci-fi films. In nearby…