Tag: Science & technology
SpaceX Completes Starship’s 6th Test Flight
It took off from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville in Texas. On Tuesday, SpaceX launched the sixth test flight of its giant Starship rocket but aborted an attempt to catch the booster during the test. RELATED: NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Explore Europa, Jupiter’s Moon Starship took off from the company’s Starbase facility […]
November 20, 2024
China: Institutional Reforms to Underpin Development of New Quality Productive Forces
The Communist Party will implement policies to support innovation in traditional and emerging industries. China has proposed institutional reforms to foster new quality productive forces in a newly released resolution that experts say will give a forceful boost to innovation. RELATED: China-Russia Joint Maritime Exercise Concludes Last week, in the resolution adopted at the third […]
July 23, 2024
Chinese Astronauts Complete Space Tests Regarding Strength, Muscle Adaptability
They tested the strength of manual performance in the Tianhe core module. On Monday, China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) informed that the Shenzhou-18 crew members on board China’s orbiting space station recently conducted a number of space science experiments and tests. RELATED: SpaceX Successfully Launches Starship Rocket In video footage released by the CMSA, the […]
June 17, 2024
Argentines Find 5,000-Year-Old Dolphin Skull
The skull belongs to a ‘bottlenose dolphin’, a species well known for its closeness to humans. On Monday, the San Pedro Paleontological Museum reported the discovery of a 5,000-year-old dolphin skull made by two fishermen who found the remains of this animal, which lived in the area during the last marine incursion into the continent. […]
June 10, 2024
SpaceX Successfully Launches Starship Rocket
The spacecraft and its rocket represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit. On Thursday, SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on the fourth test flight from its facility called Starbase in southern Texas. The rocket, lifted off at about 7:50 a.m. local time near Boca Chica Village, […]
June 7, 2024
Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault Stores 1.29 Million Samples
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s largest repository of crop diversity, welcomed new deposits that raised its total number of seed samples to 1.29 million. RELATED: Africa: Drought Threatens to Spread Food Insecurity On Tuesday, 20,683 seed samples from 15 gene banks were added, including four new contributors: two gene banks in Benin, one […]
May 29, 2024
NASA Mission Identifies Volcano Eruptions on Venus
On Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed that scientists have identified two volcanoes that erupted on Venus in the early 1990s. RELATED: Russia Denies Launching Anti-Satellite Weapon Into Space Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Magellan mission mapped 98 percent of the surface of Venus from 1990 to 1992, and the images […]
May 28, 2024
Venezuela Inaugurate its First Electronic Microscopy Laboratory
The Government of Venezuela inaugurated a scanning electronic microscopy laboratory, with the aim of strengthening the development of scientific research in different areas such as nanotechnology, new materials, engineering and geology, as reported today by the Ministry of People’s Power for Science and Technology. RELATED: Venezuelan President Finances 210 Scientific Research Projects In this regard, […]
May 25, 2024
Venezuelan President Finances 210 Scientific Research Projects
On Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the granting of financing for 210 scientific research projects that will have a direct impact on increasing production in the South American nation. RELATED: Venezuela and Turkey Sign Bilateral Agreements “These projects are relevant and useful to meet Venezuela’s needs for transformation and change,” he said, adding that over […]
May 24, 2024
South Africa: Nuclear Medicine Research Center Opens
On Thursday, South Africa’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, inaugurated a Nuclear Medicine Research (NuMeRI) facility here, the first of its kind on the African continent. Related: Africa: Drought Threatens to Spread Food Insecurity According to Nzimande, the world-class facilities are a product of South Africa’s long-standing cooperation with the European […]