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Orient – but not express when geopolitics dictates the flight plan
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTwo-dimensional maps can be deceptive: the shortest distance between two points on the surface of...
Half of Pasture Lands on Earth Degraded by Climate Change and Overuse, Threatening Food Supply of...
EcoWatch· 5 days agoThe United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has found that as much as half of...
‘Parrot lizard’ dinosaur sheds light on how reptile scales became bird feathers
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPalaeontologists have now discovered the creature, often known as the “parrot...fossil as a “hidden...
China reveals space weather radar tech
The Register· 4 days agoThe Chinese system is made up of a network of mid-latitude, high-frequency radars built in China's Jilin Province, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,...
See if You Can Ace These 120 'Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader' Questions
Parade via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDanube River is located on what continent? Answer: Europe 32. What separates the Earth into Western...
Agricultural drought-driven mechanism of coupled climate and human activities in the karst basin of...
Nature· 1 day agoTimely and accurate agricultural drought monitoring and drought-driven mechanism analysis in karst basins in the context of global warming are highly important for drought disaster monitoring ...
China's Chang'e 6 mission gearing up for early June landing on moon's far side
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Chang'e 6 mission will then start its homeward leg. After roughly five days of flight, a return...
China's rare earth dominance fueled by human rights abuses in Myanmar
The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle· 4 days agoChina's stranglehold over the world's rare earth supply has reportedly been propped up by human...
China’s version of levelling up is not going well
The Economist· 7 days agoTO UNDERSTAND WHAT China’s leaders care about, look at where they travel. Earlier this month Li Qiang, the prime minister, spent three days in Xinjiang,...
Remembering a Cold War-era Russian solar eclipse, 1981 [I Know a Story column]
Lancaster Online· 2 days agoIn early April, I rode with two friends to Arkansas, where we saw the total solar eclipse. A friend...