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Moon soil to head for Chairman Mao's hometown


With Chang'e-5 probe making a perfect conclusion to its 23-day journey to the moon, bringing back soil from Earth's celestial neighbor, Central China's Hunan Province, the hometown of the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, will be one of the sites where the moon samples are stored, to commemorate the leader and his passion for space exploration, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Thursday.

Tesla faces scrutiny

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday cited driver errors and Tesla Inc's Autopilot design as the probable causes of a Model S crash in January 2018. The car, ...

Exhibition of Chinese arts students in Serbia shows changes in urban, rural China

Visitors view photos during the photo exhibition "Reflection in Water" in Novi Sad, Serbia, July 21, 2019. The changes in urban and rural China were presented to Serbian art audience ...


No antibody-dependent enhancement effect observed in China-developed COVID19 vaccines: experts

ADE has been observed in many viruses, especially the notorious dengue disease and feline infectious peritonitis, a progressive and fatal disease caused by the feline coronavirus that is closely related ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/9/13 11:08:40

Chinese, US scientists find 550 million years ago 'leaves' in Central China's Hubei

Leaf-like ancient creatures that lived at the bottom of an ancient sea about 550 million years ago, have been discovered in the Shibantan biota in the Three Gorges region of ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/9/9 1:25:13

China seeks to manage supply of horseshoe crab's indispensable blood in race to develop COVID-19 vaccines

Declining number of horseshoe crabs - the alien-looking marine creature with blue blood containing ancient immunity properties that are an essential to develop a COVID-19 vaccine - has scientist, pharmaceutical ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/8/28 3:18:40

Brain-computer interface technology helps paralyzed patient say 'Hello'

A paralyzed man who could only communicate by blinking his eyes, used a brain implant to say "Hello" through a computer, reportedly the first in the world, which touched medical ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/8/21 1:30:05

Patient zero not always found among first cluster, so who and where is this person?

A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official highlighted at the organization's most recent press conference that patient zero is not necessarily found among the first cluster of coronavirus cases, suggesting ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/8/12 1:20:32

China, UAE eye space ties after launching Mars probes: envoy

After China and the United Arab Emirates launched probes to Mars this summer, a possible living space for mankind, the UAE Ambassador to China said Thursday he sees great potential ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/8/6 22:39:09

NASA astronauts splash down in the Gulf of Mexico

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule returned from the International Space Station and splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:48 pm ET ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/8/3 2:57:41

China successfully launches first Mars mission

China launched a Mars probe on Thursday, designed to complete orbiting, landing and roving in one mission, taking the first step in its planetary exploration of the solar system.
Source: Xinhua | 2020/7/23 20:14:53

China's ambassador to Bangladesh offers to take part in clinical trial of China-made COVID-19 vaccine

China's Embassy to Bangladesh confirmed with the Global Times that Ambassador Li Jiming has said that he would be willing to be the first volunteer for the upcoming phase III ...
Source: Global Times | 2020/7/23 0:38:28

Scientists unravel secrets of ultra-black fish swimming the deepest depths

For fish inhabiting the immense darkness of the deep sea, being ultra-black offers great camouflage in a fish-eat-fish world. Scientists studying some of these exotic creatures now have unraveled the ...
Source: Reuters | 2020/7/20 17:25:29

Scientists believe homo sapiens migrated to southern China 11,000 years ago

Chinese scientists say they have sequenced 11,000-year-old human DNA - the oldest ever found in South China -suggesting possible signs of human migration in southern China some 22,000 years ago. ...
Source: Globaltimes.cn | 2020/7/13 23:02:03

Chinese COVID-19 vaccine approved to enter Phase III clinical trial in Brazil

Beijing-based Sinovac Life Sciences Co announced on Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine collaboration with Brazilian immunobiologic producer Instituto Butantan has received approval from the Brazilian regulator for phase III clinical ...
Source: Globaltimes.cn | 2020/7/7 2:07:46

Chinese COVID-19 vaccine candidate the first to start phase 3 clinical trials worldwide

Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate is the world's first to enter phase three human clinical trial which will begin in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday. It is also the ...
Source: Globaltimes.cn | 2020/6/24 1:10:57