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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distributionHuge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
By Sascha Pare Published
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Marooned no more! Stranded Chinese astronauts finally have a way home following launch of unmanned 'lifeboat'China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck without a return capsule for over a week.
By Harry Baker Published
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Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleaguesThe Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of returning home.
By Harry Baker Published
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'Stranded' astronauts aboard Chinese space station are preparing to come home — but no date has been announcedThree astronauts remain stuck on China's Tiangong space station after errant debris struck their return capsule last week. But their return vessel has already arrived, meaning a flight home will come sooner rather than later.
By Ben Turner Published
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Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsuleThree Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.
By Harry Baker Published
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China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsResearchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.
By Owen Hughes Published
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Charred piece of secretive Chinese rocket found still smoldering in the Australian outbackExperts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead Chinese rocket. The wreckage likely crashed just before it was found.
By Harry Baker Published
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5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups made from human bones discovered in ChinaArchaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material.
By Kristina Killgrove Published
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Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstableEarth from space A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.
By Harry Baker Published
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