JIUQUAN, Gansu, (PNA/Xinhua) — China successfully launched its Shijian-16 satellite for space research and experiments Friday, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center said. The satellite was boosted by a Long March-4B carrier rocket…
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US Asks Russia to delay satellite launch – official
MOSCOW, (PNA/RIA Novosti) — The US asked to delay today’s launch of a Russian Proton rocket carrying an American commercial satellite after problems with one of its communications centers, a space agency…
Fighting asteroids a new task for Russia’s space industry
MOSCOW, (PNA/RIA Novosti) — Russia’s space agency has a new mission on its plate: fighting asteroids, the organization’s head said Sunday. Oleg Ostapenko, chief of the Roscosmos federal space agency, said that…
China to further explore meteorological resources
BEIJING, (PNA/Xinhua) — China will conduct a general survey and assessment of its wind power, solar energy and other meteorological resources, according to a report submitted to the top legislature on Monday….
Rainwater spilled from tank barriers exceeds regular radiation level: TEPCO
TOKYO, (PNA/Xinhua) — Some of the rainwater overflowed from concrete barriers around clusters of tanks on Sunday in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was found to have radiation levels above the regulatory…
India’s Mars spacecraft integrated with rocket
BANGALORE, (PNA/Bernama) — India’s Mars spacecraft, whose launch has been delayed by almost a week, has been integrated with launch vehicle, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Sunday. “The spacecraft’s integration…
Radiation level of groundwater near tank leak
TOKYO, (PNA/Kyodo) — The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Friday that it has detected a surge in the radiation level of groundwater collected near a tank that…
Brain cleans itself during sleep — study
WASHINGTON, (PNA/Xinhua) — Scientists said Thursday they have found what could be sleep’s basic purpose: it clears the brain of toxic metabolic byproducts. The findings, published in the U.S. journal Science, revealed…
Australian scientists find how black holes grow by gravitational waves
CANBERRA, (PNA/Xinhua) — A paper in Friday’s issue of the journal Science pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data — a limit on the strength…
US Biotech firm wins Russian funding – Report
WASHINGTON, (PNA/RIA Novosti) -– US biotech firm Cleveland BioLabs has won an approximately $ 4.6 million dollar contract from the Russian Ministry of Trade and Industry to fund research into a potential…
400-meter-wide asteroid could hit Earth in 2032
MOSCOW, (PNA/RIA Novosti) -– Ukrainian astronomers have discovered a large asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032, though the impact risk is minimal, according to current estimates. The 410-meter-wide (1,350-foot) minor planet,…
New frigates to be equipped with helicopters
By Priam F. Nepomuceno MANILA, (PNA) — Aside from being heavily-armed, the two frigates which the Department of National Defense (DND) is acquiring to beef up the Philippine Navy (PN), will also…
U.S. scientists come closer to achieving ‘holy grail’ of energy production
WASHINGTON, (PNA/RIA Novosti) -– Scientists in the United States have taken a major step towards replicating the process that powers the sun, coming closer than ever to achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion which…
China’s high magnetic field facilities deemed world-class
WUHAN, (PNA/Xinhua) — China’s pulsed high magnetic field experimental facilities have reached advanced levels and made world-class achievements, according to foreign experts. A team of more than 30 experts from six countries,…
China to test its autonomous underwater vehicle
BEIJING, (PNA/Xinhua) — China will test an autonomous underwater vehicle in the country’s latest scientific expedition in the eastern Pacific, the State Oceanic Administration said on Tuesday. The Chinese research vessel, “Haiyang-6,”…