SHANGHAI: More than 40% of goods sold online in China last year were either counterfeits or of bad quality, the official Xinhua news agency said, illustrating the extent of a problem that has bogged down the fast-growing online sector. According to the report, which was delivered to China’s top lawmakers on Monday, just under 59…
London: Scientists have for the first time detected abundant oxygen in the atmosphere of a comet which streaked past the Sun in August, a surprise finding that may change our understanding of the evolution of our solar system. The finding suggests the oxygen molecules were incorporated into the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its formation. European Space…
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) today announced a new innovation competition in food and agriculture. Sponsored by Rabobank, the new MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Plan Competition — with prizes totaling $25,000 — is intended to be the premier food and agribusiness business plan competition for university and graduate…
An unidentified space chunk is hurtling towards the Earth and hit next month. The unidentified flying object (UFO) is rushing towards our planet but will land in a safe location precisely near Sri Lanka into the Indian Ocean next month. Nicknamed as ‘WTF’, the mysterious piece of space chunk will be the first object of its…
China plans to build world’s most powerful particle collider with a circumference of 50 to 100 kilometres, bigger than any particle accelerator on Earth to allow a more precise understanding of universe. “We have completed the initial conceptual design and organised international peer review recently and the final conceptual design will be completed by the…
Australia is looking at a trial of an innovation that would allow its citizens to travel overseas without a physical passport, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday. Revealing the idea of a “cloud passport”, the foreign minister said it came about after lengthy discussion with some Australia’s best innovators, Xinhua news agency reported. Earlier…
Antarctica is one of the coldest, snowiest parts of the globe, but there may actually be less snow across the surface of the planet’s southernmost continent than scientists originally thought. Researchers studying areas of eastern Antarctica where snow is often stripped off the surface by wind, recently found that the powerful gusts are actually vaporizing…
Washington: Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas boy who became a cause celebre after he was detained and handcuffed for taking a homemade clock to school, visited the White House on Monday for its second astronomy night. After Ahmed’s detention on Sept. 14, President Barack Obama invited him to bring his clock to the White House….
Amazon is suing more than 1,000 users who are misleading customers by providing fake reviews of products on its online retail platform. The e-commerce giant filed a complaint in Seattle court on Friday. The latest lawsuit comes months after the company sued several websites that peddled reviews to sellers. The lawsuit is targeting 1,114 users…
An international team of scientists has identified potential ‘tipping points’ where abrupt regional climate shifts due to global warming could trigger a natural disaster. The scientists analysed the climate model simulations on which the recent 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are based. They found evidence of 41 cases of regional abrupt changes…
