International Week of Science and Peace (IWOSP) is a global observance celebrated every year from November 9 to 14. The event is celebrated to encourage people to develop better technology and cultivate peace in their countries. The annual celebration of this event contributes towards the ...

Astronaut Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman to walk in space, authorities said Monday, as her team completed a six-hour stint outside the Tiangong space station as part of its ongoing construction. Wang and her colleague Zhai Zhigang stepped out of the module waving to ...

Google's parent company Alphabet has launched a new company in London called Isomorphic Labs that aims to use artificial intelligence for drug discovery, the new company will leverage the success of DeepMind, another Alphabet subsidiary that used AI to predict the 3D structure of a protein ...

Every year, the World Radiography Day or International Day of Radiology (IDoR 2021) will once again be celebrated on November 8 with the aim of building greater awareness of the value that radiology contributes to safe patient care and improving public understanding ...

China sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched via Long March-6 carrier rocket on November 05, 2021. Guangmu is the world’s first Earth-science satellite dedicated to serving the United ...

Yahoo Inc. said it plans to pull out of China, citing an "increasingly challenging business and legal environment." The company said in a statement that its services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1.With this Yahoo has ended its 22-year presence in the Chinese ...

The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists (IDEI) is an UN-recognized international day observed annually on 2 November. Purpose: to prevent all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers; to ensure accountability, bring to ...

After analyzing 14.5 billion words used in daily news coverage in 2021, Oxford Languages’ lexicographers have chosen “vax” as word of the year. The reason: “Vax” was used 72 times as much as it was in 2020. Vax is used as a short form for vaccines and ...

The critically endangered New Zealand long-tailed bat has been named the New Zealand Bird of the Year 2021. The pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, swooped to victory in the public vote to be crowned 2021's Bird of the Year! The Bird of the Year competition is organized ...

France successfully launched a military communication satellite, named Syracuse 4A, into orbit recently from Kourou, in French Guiana. The state-of-the-art satellite was launched on Ariane 5 rocket. The satellite "is designed to resist military aggression from the ground and in ...