Wednesday, 8 March 2017 It has nothing to do with them being so very, very cute – instead, its meant to make pandas look tough, according to a new study. Pandas are one of the few mammals that don’t have colouring that matches their environment. They’re a study in …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 China is making a new-generation manned spaceship which rivals that of world-leading space powers, a space mission expert said. “Among the next generation of manned spaceships some foreign countries are developing, only the Orion spacecraft of the US can carry out a moon landing mission,” …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 A quarter of all global deaths of children under 5 years old are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack or adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Such unsanitary and polluted environments can …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Beijing on 18 March to discuss China-US relations and multilateral issues, the State Department announced on Tuesday. In his maiden trip to Asia since taking the job as US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat about a month ago, …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Most people who have seen live giant pandas have done so at a zoo. Some are lucky enough to visit panda breeding centres in Sichuan province. But it’s extremely rare to see a giant panda in the wild. Now, Sichuan is planning tourism routes across …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male have been installed in Melbourne to reduce “unconscious bias” and promote gender equality, officials said on International Women’s Day Wednesday. 10 stop/go lights depicting a figure in a dress were switched on at one of the …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life. A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that’s stripping its …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Italy’s birthrate is continuing the downward trend which has alarmed the country’s Health Ministry over the past few years, with just 474,000 babies born in 2016, a historic low. Birth numbers in 2016 surpassed the previous year’s record of 486,000, national statistics agency Istat revealed on Monday …
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Wednesday, 8 March 2017 More than 100 people in a single region of Somalia died in just 2 days this past week because of a crippling drought that has left the country on the brink of famine. Somalia’s prime minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, announced on Saturday that at least 110 …
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Tuesday, 7 March 2017 Cambridge University scientists have successfully created a living mouse embryo from stem cells, a technique that could be used to create an artificial human embryo in the future. After 2 kinds of mouse stem cells were mixed in the lab, they formed a mouse embryo …
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