Revery Architecture recently completed work on a performing arts center in Hong Kong's Kowloon Cultural District. The Xiqu Centre features a striking facade made up of curved aluminum that envelops glazing. The firm likens the effect to a lantern shimmering behind a beaded stage curtain.
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A new study of satellite data has shown that the Earth has gotten “greener” in the last 20 years or so, with the biggest contributors being China and India. Before we celebrate though, there are a few caveats to consider.
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A confronting new study has revealed over 400 published research papers may be in violation of international ethical standards regarding the use of donor organs sourced from executed prisoners. The study calls for a mass retraction of hundreds of research papers from mainland China.
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Bernard Tschumi Architects' Exploratorium is a scientific museum dedicated to Tianjin, China's industrial history and is host to different examples of technology, including rockets related to space research. The building is defined by a series of large cones that help reduce its energy-usage.
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New research out of China has confirmed the birth of five-gene-edited monkey clones. Two recently published papers describe how a CRISPR-gene edited long-tailed macaque has been successfully cloned demonstrating the first time in the world a gene-edited monkey has been effectively cloned.
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Preliminary results of an investigation by the Chinese government into the ethics of experiments that led to the birth of the world's first gene-edited babies have now been released. The report condemns the actions of He and confirming some of the questions previously raised about this strange case.
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China’s Chang'e-4 spacecraft made history when it landed on the far side of the Moon on January 3. Now a sealed container carried aboard the lander has given rise to the first ever seedlings to sprout on the Moon.
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With its unique interior layout, sitting three across up front and two each in the second and third rows, the Entranze EV is conceived as a road-trip-ready family vehicle that can be a daily driver as well.
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China’s landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon at the beginning of the year was a landmark moment for space exploration, and after operating in the dark for a little while new images are now starting to show the rover at work.
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A new genus of filovirus has been detected in bats in Southern China. The new virus is evolutionarily similar to the notorious Ebola and Marburg viruses, and while there is no current threat of a human outbreak, the researchers suspect it is capable of interspecies transmission.
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