Marking the 88th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the Chinese navy’s South Sea Fleet began an eight-day exercise in the South China Sea from Aug. 1-8. The developments come just days after China held live-fire naval drills with 100 ships in the same region.
A professor's study in Utah University said that drought stress on forests sets back the growth of the trees making it store less carbon dioxide than expected on climate models. The minimal carbon dioxide absorption, according to the study, will speed up climate change.
The European Space Agency's scientists for the Rosetta mission witnessed Philae lander bounce off comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The bumpy touchdown, in the end, allowed the group to record measurements in two spots instead of just one.
A team of researchers created a robotic insect that could jump above the water surface like a water spider. Pioneer universities collaborated on the project.
Political cartoons featuring China’s state leaders started to become popular among the public when China's famous Fuxinglushang Animation Studio released a cartoon called "Following Uncle Xi to SCO-BRICS 2015 Summit,” which hit the headlines in Chinese media early July.
Confirmation that the plane fragment called flaperon, found in Reunion Island in France, appears to move closer that it came from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370.
The moon will make its second full moon on July 31, Friday, marking another rare occurrence within the United States since August 2012. Since the calendar year and the lunar cycle are not synced, this is the reason why every three years, the Earth presents two full moons in just a single calendar month.
The condition of the country's capital, Washington DC, is sinking into the ocean, with a "forebulge collapse," not water or climate change causing it.
President Barrack Obama ordered the creation of a supercomputer that will be 20 times faster than the computer that holds the current record for being the fastest of its kind. The said project is said to go online by 2025.
The Administration of Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of China called for the review of aging escalators and elevators across the country amid news of various safety hazards.
Emergency service dispatcher Mathew Sanchez has resigned after he refused to help a 911 caller reporting a shooting victim in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Israel separately attacked Syria and Lebanon on July 22. According to reports, an Israeli air force jet bombed a car in Quneitra, Syrian Golan Heights. Another attack was on a pro-Syrian Palestinian military base along the borders of Syria and Lebanon was attacked by an Israeli plane later that day.
Russia rejected the United Nations resolution to create a tribunal that will investigate on the shooting of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine. The tribunal will serve as a prosecution panel to those responsible in downing the plane.
The mystery of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 370 jet may finally be solved after a flaperon was found in the Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed. U.S. investigators confirmed that the aircraft part came from a Boeing 777, the same model as the ill-fated airplane.
China will harness Supercomputer Skyeye-1 to provide support to a radio telescope being assembled in the mountains of Guizhou Province, which has a dish the size of 30 football fields, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
