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  Washington DC (UPI) Nov 24, 2020 Russia's defense ministry said Tuesday that it caught the U.S. Navy destroyer USS John McCain in contested waters in the Sea of Japan and chased the vessel off. The vessel was performing what the Navy described as a freedom of navigation operation, or FONOP, Tuesday in the vicinity of Peter the Great Gulf, which Russia claims as Russian territorial waters, but that the United States considers international waters. The Russian news agency Tass reported that the McCain passed the maritime ... read more |
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Nimitz Strike Group concludes four-nation Malabar sea exercisesWashington DC (UPI) Nov 20, 2020 The four-nation Malabar 2020 naval exercise, involving the U.S. Navy's Nimitz Strike Group, concluded successfully Friday, the Navy's 7th Fleet announced. ... more  
Island tensions simmer as China, Japan vow to boost trade tiesTokyo (AFP) Nov 24, 2020 Tokyo and Beijing pledged cooperation on trade and defence Tuesday, but locked horns on disputed islands as China's foreign minister visited Japan for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. ... more  
SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISSWashington (AFP) Nov 16, 2020 Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring. ... more 
World's largest free trade agreement signed in coup for ChinaHanoi (AFP) Nov 15, 2020 Fifteen Asia-Pacific countries on Sunday signed the world's biggest free trade deal, seen as a huge coup for China in extending its influence. ... more |
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Telling when a nanolithography mold will break through dropletsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography is powerful method of producing polymer nanostructures by pressing a curable resin onto a mold. However, there are no convenient methods to determine the lifetime ... more  
Honda wins world-first approval for Level 3 autonomous carTokyo (AFP) Nov 11, 2020 Honda on Wednesday won approval to sell Level 3 autonomous cars in Japan, in what the automaker and Japanese authorities said was a world-first. ... more  
Japan's Toshiba retreats from coal-fired power stationsTokyo (AFP) Nov 11, 2020 Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will stop constructing new coal-fired power plants and shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. ... more  
Tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear reactor gets restart approvalTokyo (AFP) Nov 11, 2020 A nuclear reactor in northern Japan on Wednesday became the first among those damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to get final restart approval, with support from regional authorities. ... more 
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Touch Down at Florida SpaceportHouston TX (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 The astronauts that will soon launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission have arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to start final preparatio ... more |
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 U.S.-Japan joint exercise, involving 46,000 troops, called a success  
Diversity, streaming reshape video games for a new generationHong Kong (AFP) Nov 6, 2020 In the quarter of a century since Sony launched the groundbreaking PlayStation, video games have exploded into the biggest form of entertainment in the world, and analysts say the growing diversity of billions of players is reshaping the industry. ... more  |
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BAE proposes support package for Japan's next-generation F-X fighterWashington DC (UPI) Nov 05, 2020 BAE Systems has proposed a package to support Japan's F-X next generation fighter development program, the company announced Thursday. ... more  
TAU builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbitTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite, approximately the size of a shoebox, is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japanese space agency JAXA prior to a planned launch by NASA in the first quarter o ... more  
Northrop Grumman to build Coyote supersonic target missiles for Navy, JapanWashington DC (UPI) Nov 4, 2020 A $57 million contract with Northrop Grumman to build supersonic target missiles for the U.S. Navy and Japan has been announced by the U.S. Defense Department. ... more 
USS John S. McCain joins Indo-Pacific partners for Malabar 2020 exerciseWashington DC (UPI) Nov 03, 2020 Indo-Pacific partners Australia, Japan, India and the United States on Tuesday started the Malabar 2020 exercise in the Bay of Bengal. ... more 
U.S. Marine Corps reactivates 3rd Landing Support BattalionWashington DC (UPI) Nov 03, 2020 The 3rd Marine Logistics Group this week reactivated the 3rd Landing Support Battalion in a ceremony aboard Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan. ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Nov 24, 2020 
On August 25, Hannah Gittings watched in horror as her friend Anthony Huber was fatally shot during a demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protest the police killing of a Black man at the hands of police.
The events turned violent when an extreme right militia group called the Kenosha Guard called on Facebook followers to "protect" the city, and a 17-year-old member of the group opened fi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
In a refurbished Southern California garage, Carnegie astrophysicists are creating the virtual reality-enabled scientific workspace of the future where they will unlock the mysteries of the cosmos.
Imagine standing in front of a wave of data and probing the mysteries of the universe's most-ancient galaxies side-by-side with swirling, colorful simulations of galaxy formation-seeing what ali ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2020 
China livestreamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on Friday, part of a historic mission into the deepest underwater valley on the planet.
The "Fendouzhe", or "Striver", descended more than 10,000 metres (about 33,000 feet) into the submarine trench in the western Pacific Ocean with three researchers on board, state broadcaster CCTV said.
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 17, 2020 
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn intercepted and destroyed an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile-representative target with a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA missile during a flight test demonstration Monday.
The target was launched from Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in Hawaii toward the broad ocean area northeast of the sta ... more |
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 Wenchang, China (Sputnik) Nov 25, 2020 
China is set to begin construction of its orbital space station next year, deputy head of the Chang Zheng 5 (Long March 5) launch vehicle project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), Qu Yiguang, told reporters.
"Since the appearance of the Chang Zheng 5 launch vehicle, it has been determined that it will carry out the mission of launching China's largest spacec ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been trained on a thousand simulated obstacle-laden courses, but it's never seen one like this. Still, nine times out of 10, the pint-sized plane dodges all the obstacles in its path.
This experiment i ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 21, 2020 
Relatives of 12 Hong Kong democracy activists detained in mainland China released balloons carrying messages to their loved ones across the border on Saturday, as they called for their return.
It has been 90 days since the 12 were arrested by the Chinese coast guard in late August when fleeing their city for Taiwan by boat.
Most of those aboard the vessel were being prosecuted in Hong Ko ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2020 
After 20 years of continuous human presence, the International Space Station (ISS) has provided 241 visitors with an extraordinary view of Earth from outer space - one they have shared with the rest of the world.
Astronaut photography, formally called Crew Earth Observations (CEO), has resulted in more than 3.5 million photographs of the ever-changing blue planet. But camera-wielding astro ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Nov 18, 2020 
Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever said Wednesday it has set a new annual sales target of one billion euros for plant-based food products as consumers turn away from meat and dairy.
Known for brands like Ben & Jerry's and Magnum ice cream and Hellmann's mayonnaise, Unilever said it was boosting its range of such vegan-friendly product to meet the target within five to seven years.
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 
In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system - more than 4,000 have been observed. Usually, their presence is given away by the slight effects they have on their parent stars, which vastly outshine them. For a decade and half, scientists have been trying to image exoplanets directly, but the Earth's atmosphere presents a maj ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2020  Nearly a million people have taken an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese company Sinopharm, the firm said, although it has not yet provided any clear clinical evidence of efficacy.
China has been giving experimental Covid-19 vaccines to people including state employees, international students and essential workers heading abroad since July.
Sinopharm's chairman told m ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2020 
Africa's semi-arid Sahel region is a crucible of climate change, population movement and jihadist attacks.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this month called it a "microcosm of cascading global risks converging in one region."
- What is it ? -
In pure geographic terms the Sahel, or Sahil in Arabic, meaning coast or shore, is a vast region that stretches along the Sahara desert's ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Anyone who has gotten a sofa stuck in a doorway on moving day knows how frustrating it is when there's no other way in or out. The doorways on the International Space Station, or airlocks, have worked just fine for 20 years. But as more researchers and companies wish to expand the scope and size of the projects they send into low-Earth orbit, a larger doorway could help.
Opening another po ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 22, 2020 
The US said it formally left the Open Skies defense treaty on Sunday, one of several international agreements Washington has exited under President Donald Trump.
Open Skies was agreed just after the Cold War to allow signatories to avoid nasty surprises or unfounded suspicions by monitoring rival militaries.
But Trump said in May that Moscow had not stuck to its commitments under the pa ... more |
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