Nineteen people have been killed after a highway collapsed in China’s Guangdong province on Wednesday, according to the country’s state broadcaster, CCTV. A section of the express highway connecting Meizhou City and Dapu City in Guangdong Province collapsed at around 2:10 a.m. on Wednesday, leaving eighteen cars trapped, CCTV reported. Widely circulated social media videos shot in darkness showed a ...
In the early days of 2020, as science looked for answers to a mysterious viral outbreak in central China, a prominent Chinese virologist stepped forward to share critical data with the world. Zhang Yongzhen’s disclosure of the genome of the virus that causes Covid-19 was a crucial step in the race to combat the pandemic, helping researchers globally to identify the pathogen and ...
China’s newest, largest and most-advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, took a big step to joining the world’s largest naval fleet on Wednesday as it set out from Shanghai for its first sea trials. The naval assessment is expected to take place in the East China Sea, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the Jiangnan Shipyard where the carrier has been ...
A nearly 300-year-old settlement once submerged beneath a major dam in the Philippines has reemerged as sweltering heat and drought dry up the reservoir. Structures, including part of a church, tombstones and a municipal hall marker, reappeared in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province in March after months of almost no rain, Marlon Paladin, a supervising engineer ...
A transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leadership has named one of its members as council president and proposed a new interim prime minister amid efforts to control the gang violence in the Caribbean nation. The council, which is responsible for paving the way for elections and addressing the country’s deteriorating security situation, on Tuesday named Edgard Leblanc Fils ...
Running around a ‘wall of death’ could keep people healthy on the moon, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Milan tied people to bungee cords to replicate lunar gravity and asked them to run around a rented ‘wall of death’, which they had loaned from an amusement park. The test subjects needed to run fast enough to ...
Google appears to be rolling out “audio emojis” to its phone users. Some Google Pixel phone owners are noticing an option to send a reaction while on a call. “I was on the phone and saw a new button come up… “Audio Emoji”??? I had to call my brother to test it out!” said one X user. An accompanying video ...
FKA Twigs has revealed she has created an AI version of herself to engage with fans and help with promotion. The British singer-songwriter and dancer gave details of the project as she addressed a US Senate intellectual property hearing regarding the No Fakes Act, which aims to crack down on unauthorised replicas. FKA Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett ...
Apple is trying to fix a problem which caused some iPhone alarms to not go off. Users have been complaining they were missing their alarms. “This has probably been the third or fourth day in a row that my alarm clock has not gone off,” one TikTok user Reid Manning said. It is unclear how many people have been affected. ...
Archaeologists have been able to piece together the skull of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton. Researchers from Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moores unearthed the skull at the Shanidar Cave site, 500 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. As part of a new Netflix documentary, Secrets of The Neanderthals, they were able to put the skull back together and recreate the face ...