BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
The project "The Ocean Cleanup" wants to use its system to rid the oceans from plastic waste. The...
Scientists from the University of Magdalena in Colombia discovered six new species of tardigrades...
PARIS — The French capital was set to be the world capital of science. On May 17-18, no fewer than 50 conferences in the fields of aerospace, mechanics, energy, the environment, civil engineering, ...
Education and experience certainly play a role in how well an individual understands other people...
The U.S. web giant may be planning a return to China. But would web users there actually embrace ...
There's a potentially sinister side to the crush of data we unwittingly feed into systems lik...
Since 2011, the Caribbean islands have been attacked by rafts of algae which give off a pungent o...
-Analysis- MUNICH — As far as industrial strategies and international competition are concerned, there’s no greater contrast than that between Europe's resignation and China's iron ...
French experts doubt that a machine can help you find your soulmate better than trusting the eter...
With facial recognition cameras and Big Data, the Chinese leadership is pushing its penchant for ...
Can a clone have a birthday? Well, let’s just say that Dolly the sheep was delivered 22 years ago on July 5 — the world’s first cloned mammal to see the light of day. The result of a successful ...
Our political leaders are woefully inefficient and too often dishonest. So maybe we should let ma...
BEIJING — The exhibition was called “Secret,” and opened in the Wuhan Art Museum in April. And what was in the show? The personal information of the 346,000 citizens of the central Chinese city of ...
Computers that can perfectly mimic the human voice? Hyper sensitive surveillance cameras? Advance...
China Newsweek — June 4, 2018 Over the past decade, there have been countless reports about the boom in cosmetic surgery in Asian countries such as China, Japan and South Korea. Names have ...
PARIS — The address is not by chance. Courbet, a jewelry designer that sells synthetic diamonds, has decided to open at the world's most prestigious location for any jeweler: the Place Vendôme in ...
MOSCOW — On April 13, a Russian court decreed an immediate blocking of the app Telegram across the country. The decision came after the refusal of Telegram to provide Russian security services ...
Researchers used visuals and scanning technology to gauge how people "feel" about the contenders ...
Internet giants have now started flirting with decentralization, to try and replace the so-far fa...
The digital revolution is shifting how societies are structured, and may lead to greater public o...
Smartphones have upended communication and consumption, leaving retailers to transform themselves...
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