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Female physicist invents fusion rocket that may take humans to Mars
New concept for rocket thruster exploits the mechanism behind solar flares, says Raphael Rosen from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Scientists found source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
A ‘blue bang’ sparks an unusual type of lightning in the upper atmosphere, says Maria Temming.
Can science put Sustainable Development Goals back on track?
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the UN’s flagship plan to end poverty and protect the environment. Researchers need to launch a rapid response, says a Nature Editorial.
Ancient Lake Discovered Under Greenland May Be Millions of Years Old, Scientists Say
Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed buried under a mile of ice in Greenland, providing a glimpse of what the remote region looked like in the past—and how it might look in a future shaped by human-driven climate change.
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Chinese professor enters Stanford’s list of top 2% scientists in the world
Zadeh's Fuzzy set theory and Deng and Liu's grey system theory have seen a lot of applications in artificial intelligence, soft computing and machine learning.
US buys nearly all of Covid-19 drug remdesivir
"It so clearly signals an unwillingness to co-operate with other countries and the chilling effect this has on international agreements about intellectual-property rights,” says science-policy researcher Ohid Yaqub.
China’s decision not to report symptom-free coronavirus cases makes sense, says Scientists
Researchers say that excluding these people might appear concealing the epidemic’s true extent but they make sense
German Chancellor Merkel praises China’s advances in System Theory & Artificial…
In her address at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, she said "I am very happy to be here to gather together. Your school has a large number of talents including academic leaders such as Deng Julong and Liu Sifeng,…
Amazon forests on fire – international crisis in development
Once beautiful and splendid, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen a record number of fires this season, scorching vast areas of greenery known as the "lungs of the planet."
Centuries-old physics problem that baffled Newton solved by a PhD student
The critics have questioned why such an important study isn't published in Nature or Science?