A recent statement released by the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has created controversy with remarks implying that marital separation can be "morally necessary" under certain circumstances.
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged for more comprehensive and coordinated efforts against drugs, vowing that there would be "no rest until a sweeping victory."
The Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute (ZELRI) under the CRRC Corp., manufacturer of high-speed rail equipment, has successfully developed the permanent-magnet synchronous electric-machinery traction system, after 10 million test runs, 100 million yuan ($16.1 million), and over 11 years, giving the nation's high-speed rail industry an extra advantage.
Microsoft's HoloLens, the augment reality (AR) headset that it launched earlier this year, will be in the hands of NASA astronauts who travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 26, Sunday. The space agency announced that the AR headset will be used in a new project named Sidekick, as a virtual aid to the American spacemen.
The Phew Research Center in the U.S. revealed that more people around the world think well of China.
NASA has just announced a Mars workshop for October that will discuss possible exploration zones on the surface of Mars.
On Sunday, June 28, SpaceX will attempt to land its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform barge off the Atlantic after its cargo resupply launch to the ISS.
Up to 1,000 universities in France, Italy, and other 14 popular overseas destinations for Chinese applicants are now accepting national college entrance test scores or "gaokao" scores as admission criteria, according to a report published on Monday by MyOffer, a London-based online student placement portal.
China announced the results of its first-ever lottery funds audit on Thursday. The National Audit Office revealed various organizations and individuals who embezzled a total of 16.9 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) between 2012 and 2014, garnering 25.7 percent of the 65.6 billion yuan in lottery funds raised in 18 provincial-level regions.
A new study reveals that warmer species of corals from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia can help in conserving coral reefs against global warming.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered an exoplanet 30 light years away with an evaporating atmosphere, sucked by its host star.
Scientists have discovered the first "Yeti Crab" of the Antarctica continent, which they have named "The Hoff" after the hairy-chested American actor David Hasselhoff. The new animal species with hair-like pincers lives in the deep-sea environment of the Antarctic's Southern Ocean. This creature grows and harvests its own bacteria food, and then eats the microbes.
New data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile reveals that a giant galaxy called Messier 87 is apparently still growing due to absorbing smaller stars.
Proposed revisions to the Criminal Law will most likely deter human traffickers, as they will be slapped with much tougher penalties. Legislators now have the proposed revisions of the said law.
NASA claimed that it has found a strange source of X-rays in Milky Way galaxy that provides a new "measuring stick" to astronomers in determining the distance to the unique object.
