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Nature at its craziest: Trillions of cicadas about to emerge

Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury find their quarry: a cicada nymph.And then another. And another. And fo

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Sidelines | International Workers' Day: Dancing to a robot's tune?

Sidelines is a column by CGTN's Social Media DeskAs Siri, Alexa and Cortana are speaking in ever more realistic human voices, listening to online beatboxing hits that emulate the hallmark sound effec

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Full text: Xi Jinping's speech at Leaders Summit on Climate

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a speech titled "For Man and Nature: Building a Community of Life Together" at the Leaders Summit on Climate via video link from

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Queenly raises $2.3M for its dress marketplace

One of our favorite companies from the most recently Y Combinator batch has closed a seed round. This morning Quenly announced that it has closed a $2.262 million round, following its $800,000 pre-see

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Live long and prosper: Challenges and lessons in aging Asia

Asia has been a global economic powerhouse in recent decades. But the region is well on track to a gray future, as Asian countries are growing older faster and on a larger scale than any other par

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H&M removed from Chinese apps over Xinjiang cotton boycott

HM has been removed by major e-commerce and service apps in China after a Communist Party organization barraged it for a statement expressing “deep concern” over allegations of forced labo

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An ounce of pandemic prevention

People enter and exit the Javits Center COVID-19 vaccination site in New York City, March 23, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Sally C. Davies is master of Trinity College, Cambridge and chair ofTh

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Russian FM's visit to Beijing comes at a crucial time

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AI fintech products are operating at scale and investor interest is maturing

Recently public unicorn Upstart announced earnings that blew the socks off of Wall Street this week. After closing on Wednesday at around $61 per share, Upstart wrapped Thursday worth $115 per share.

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Sanxingdui relics: Bronze altar replicated from 100 broken pieces

00:55 The 3,000-year-old Sanxingdui ruins site in southwest China's Sichuan Province has yielded some quite extraordinary archaeological finds. Over 100 bronze pieces w

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The Quad's vaccine diplomacy: More show than substance?

Yoshihide Suga (C), Japan's prime minister, at the virtual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) meeting at his official residence, with attendance of U.S. President Joe Biden, Australia's prime

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Million-year-old mammoths yield oldest ever sequenced DNA

An illustration from 'Nature' magazine, of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth. /AFP /BETH ZAIKEN/CENTRE FOR PALAEOGENETICS Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafr

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World's oldest DNA sequenced from million-year-old mammoths

A reconstruction of the steppe mammoths that preceded the woolly mammoth, based on the genetic knowledge from the Adycha mammoth. /CFP Teeth from mammoths buried in the Siberian permafrost for

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Has pause button been pressed on China-CEEC cooperation amid COVID-19?

Has the pause button been pressed on China-CEEC cooperation amid COVID-19? The answer is no, even though the whole world experienced a severe collapse in economy in 2020. According to the latest data

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New Chinese ambassador presents credentials to Maltese president

Yu Dunhai, the newly appointed Chinese ambassador to Malta, presented his credentials to President of Malta George Vella on Thursday. New Chinese Ambassador Yu Dunhai poses with the letters of cr

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What Trump taught us about America

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Mexico says US ‘fabricated’ charges, releases evidence

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” drug trafficking accusations against his countr