The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China, carried on the Long March-2F rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station July 19, 1964: China took its first official step into space, launching and recovering an experimental biological rocket carrying white mice. April 24, … Read more
The remnants of a supernova explosion that looks like an ‘arm reaching into space’ is made up of light that first reached Earth 1,700 years ago, a new study discovered. This would have been during the third century when the Mayan empire was flourishing, the Jin dynasty ruled China, and England was a Roman territory. … Read more
A strange spiral appeared in the skies over the northwest Pacific on June 8 that baffled residents, with some likening it to the portal in the ‘Doctor Strange’ movie– but astronomers reveal it was caused by a rocket. American astronomer Jonathan McDowell weighed in the bizarre sighting, revealing it was fuel released by China’s Long … Read more
Revealed: Iran’s ‘ghost armada’ of 123 sanction-busting tankers is selling black market oil to China to bankroll its secret nuclear programme Iran has almost doubled its fleet sailing under other countries’ flags to 123 Let China smuggle up to million barrels of oil per day, two-thirds UK’s daily rise Intelligence experts warn growing fleet shows … Read more
Chinese astronauts have settled in to the brand new Tiangong space station, an orbiting laboratory a fifth the size of the ISS and only a third complete. The trio launched for the modular space station on a Long March-2F rocket at 02:22 BST yesterday from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwest China‘s Gobi desert. Arriving … Read more
Wolves chase actors across stage and run through the audience during live show in China, sparking safety fears Wolves were filmed chasing actors across a stage at a theatre in Xi’an, China Several of the animals leave the stage and run into the aisles, footage shows ‘I would lose my mind if just sitting there,’ … Read more
The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft is launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021 in Jiuquan, Gansu Province of China, carried on the Long March-2F rocket, to Chinese Tiangong space station July 19, 1964: China took its first official step into space, launching and recovering an experimental biological rocket carrying white mice. April 24, … Read more
Secretive Chinese tech firm Tencent’s foot-tall robot on wheels can leap chasms, somersault and even bring you a latte Ollie is Tencent’s first bipedal robot, using wheels instead of feet In a promo video, the bot takes stairs, sloped terrain and even a climbs a wrecking ball without stumbling Ollie flips 360 degrees to bridge … Read more
Having a poor diet may increase the risk of dangerous driving for truck drivers, a new study suggests. A Beijing-based team of researchers looked at the diets of nearly 400 male truck drivers in Suzhou, China – a city west of Shanghai in the Jiangsu province. They determined that drivers who ate more more junk food, … Read more
‘We do not view NATO as sort of protection racket’: Biden lands in Brussels to reaffirm transatlantic alliance after ties frayed under Trump Joe Biden touched down in Brussels on Sunday evening He is on second leg of first foreign trip as president He’ll meet with NATO and EU leaders on Monday and Tuesday ‘We … Read more