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In early December, rocket engineer Vu Dinh Thanh sent a declaration to the National Office of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Science and Technology) to register the…
For Christmas, astronomer Jean Dean shares a stunning photograph of the NGC 2264 nebula 2,600 light-years from Earth.
Dense streaks of oil have severely damaged Brazilian beaches for nearly four months, but the cause has not been determined.
For the salamander that mainly live in water, their fertilization will be very special: Insemination but not mating.
Assisted GPS or Augmented GPS (commonly abbreviated as A-GPS or aGPS) is a system to help reduce the boot time and start positioning of GPS devices.
Recent research indicates that a layer of snow iron is formed and depositing the inner core of the Earth.
Turns out, coffee is art, and people know coffee is the artist.
ETRSS-1 satellite was put into orbit on December 20, marking a historic milestone in Ethiopia's space science development effort.
In the process of digging large pythons, the group of workers accidentally bumped into a 'third person' and was attacked so painfully that they fled.
The dwarf willow tree only grows to a height of 1 - 6 cm to adapt to the harsh environment in the Arctic.
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed gently in the desert in New Mexico state early in the morning on December 22.
The discovery of a previously unknown tomb of the ancient Egyptian Queen could herald a worrying future for Earth if the inscriptions on this tomb are accurate.
In 2004, US Navy pilots discovered something unusual on the West Coast - a group of flying objects with very irregular, inexplicable shapes and directions.
Mr. Nguyen Van Phu (from Vu Quang district) rented a excavator to dig the house, discovered three crock pots containing more than 100kg of coins at a depth of 1.5m.
Astronomers found nearly 15 exoplanets in the Kepler 51 star system with a density of less than 0.1 grams of matter per cubic centimeter.