Science-&-Innovation
Chinese university students develop advanced lens-free microscope
China's Nanjing University of Science and Technology has unveiled a lens-free digital holography microscope "CyteLive" that can achieve high precision and a large field of view at the same time.
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NASA's rover to hunt for microscopic fossils on Mars
NASA scientists have discovered a potential place for its Mars 2020 rover to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater where the rover will land in February of 2021.
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China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket
Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province Wednesday.
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China launches int'l agricultural science program
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) Wednesday launched an international agricultural science program to strengthen cooperation between CAAS and its global partners in developing cutting-edge agricultural science and technology.
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S. Africa parliament approves convention to establish world's largest radio telescope
South Africa's National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday approved a convention to establish the world's largest radio telescope observatory.
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Most distant world ever explored gets new name: Arrokoth
That means "sky" in the language of the Native American Powhatan people, NASA said Tuesday.
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Apollo 12: Fifty years ago, a passionate scientist's keen eye led to the first pinpoint landing on the Moon
When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, it was a giant leap for mankind and a huge success for American engineering, but there was one aspect of the mission that hadn’t really gone as planned. When Neil Armstrong manually guided the lunar module to a safe touchdown, he had to override the computer which had the craft landing in a field of boulders. It left the demonstration of precision automated guidance to Apollo 12.
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Mini Mercury skips across sun's vast glare in rare transit
Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit.
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China to meet challenges of exploring asteroid, comet
Chinese space engineers are tackling the key technologies needed to explore a near-Earth asteroid and a main-belt comet with one space probe.
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Brazil plans to create 8 AI labs
The Brazilian government on Monday announced a plan to build eight artificial intelligence (AI) labs across the country.
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