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China's 'space dream' | A Long March to the Moon and beyond

The Jade Rabbit lunar rover surveyed the moon's surface for 31 months

China successfully launched the latest mission to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, with a crew that includes its first civilian astronaut.

Ways to prevent cholera

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Cholera is an illness which results in watery diarrhea that can cause dehydration and ultimately, death. The illness is caused by consuming food or wa

Plastics have been found in the most remote environments

Plastic pollution: treaty talks get into the nitty-gritty

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French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday warned that global plastics pollution was a "time bomb", as diplomats began five days of talks in

School violence is endemic in South Korean schools, Noh Yoon-ho, a Seoul-based attorney who specialises in bullying cases told AFP

No glory for bullies: South Korea's school violence epidemic

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Pins hidden in her shoes, head forced down a toilet, kicked in the stomach: Korean hairdresser Pyo Ye-rim suffered a litany of abuse from school bulli

No glory for bullies: South Korea's school violence epidemic

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Pins hidden in her shoes, head forced down a toilet, kicked in the stomach: Korean hairdresser Pyo Ye-rim suffered a litany of abuse from school bulli

Since the beginning of March 2023, 10,000 cubic metres of rubbish -- enough to fill four Olympic swimming pools -- have been collected from Ha Long Bay

Vietnam battles plastic blight in idyllic Ha Long Bay

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Since the beginning of March, 10,000 cubic metres of rubbish -- enough to fill four Olympic swimming pools -- have been collected from the water.

The workroom in Mars Dune Alpha at the Johnson Space center

Meet the scientist (sort of) spending a year on Mars

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At the end of June, four volunteers will be stepping into a Martian habitat in Houston, Texas that will be their home for the next 12 months.

Stephen Hawking in his Cambridge office, where he first met his final collaborator Thomas Hertog

Stephen Hawking's last collaborator on physicist's final theory

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In an interview with AFP, Thomas Hertog spoke about his 20-year collaboration with Stephen Hawking.

Elon Musk standing next to a surgical robot during a Neuralink presentation in 2020

Key facts about Neuralink, Musk's cyborg gamble

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Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-implant company, has won US approval to test on humans. Here is what to know about the multi-billionaire's drea

The directors of 'Patrol' say it is often not possile to check the origin of beef from Nicaragua back to its farm, as the traceability process is too opaque

Film exposes Nicaragua forest threat from beef industry

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Beginning in 2016, filmmakers Camilo de Castro and Brad Allgood visited the Indio-Maiz Biological Reserve for a documentary.

An endangered Lear's macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) flies over a reserve near the Canudos Biological Station, close to the Canudos Wind Energy Complex in Canudos, Bahia state, Brazil, on May 5, 2023

Brazil faces dilemma: Endangered macaw vs wind farm

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A wind farm in northeastern Brazil sounds like a welcome climate-friendly energy solution, but it is causing controversy over another kind of envir...