WATCH: Blue Origin Launch Today — New Glenn Rocket Aims for Mars in Big Test for Jeff Bezos’ Company | US News

WATCH: Blue Origin Launch Today — New Glenn Rocket Aims for Mars in Big Test for Jeff Bezos’ Company | US News

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is gearing up for another attempt to launch its giant New Glenn rocket, carrying two NASA satellites on their first journey toward Mars. The rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during a window between 2:57 and…

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Tech takes centre stage as Chinese students weigh up major choices

Tech takes centre stage as Chinese students weigh up major choices

Like millions of Chinese students, 18-year-old He Junjie is anxiously waiting to see which university and major will admit him after last month’s intensely competitive National Higher Education Entrance Examination, or gaokao. After evaluating his score and studying the universities and programmes he qualified for, He focused on engineering when submitting his applications a few…

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Republicans urge US schools to drop ‘nefarious’ Chinese scholarship programme

Republicans urge US schools to drop ‘nefarious’ Chinese scholarship programme

House Republicans have urged seven US universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship programme that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government. In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raised concerns…

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