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China launched a satellite to help explore the moon’s far side

Space

China launched a satellite to help explore the moon’s far side

A satellite launched on 21 May will allow China's upcoming moon lander – the first to visit the far side – to receive commands and send data back to Earth

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Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

Earth

Chinese giant salamanders may already be virtually extinct

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rocket launch

Earth

China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?

Insight

A group of young people in Shanghai holding a rainbow flag take a selfie

Technology

Millions of censored web pages discovered in massive study

News

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

Humans

Our ancestors mated with the mystery 'Denisovan' people – twice

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Tiangong-1 space station

Space

China's reckless attitude to space debris needs to change

Comment

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing complex

Health

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

Analysis

rubbish mountain

Life

China's plan to stop recycling the world's rubbish may backfire

Analysis

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

Life

A legal trade in rhino horn could be twice as big as illegal one

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Panda

Life

The first ancestors of giant pandas probably lived in Europe

Ten million years ago a bear similar to modern giant pandas lived in what is now Hungary, suggesting the earliest pandas really came from Europe, not China

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Space

Science fiction picks sound wedding bells and other alarms

Culture

Technology

Why China's green ambitions will make it the next world leader

Insight

Technology

China's quantum submarine detector could seal South China Sea

News

Earth

Satellite shows clear-up operation after severe floods in China

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