200 Million People Could Be Fed With China’s New Strain Of Saltwater Rice

By: Tom Hale/IFL Science  Chinese scientists have developed a strain of super-tough “sea rice” that farmers can grow in salty water, set to spark a rice revolution that could help feed over 200 million people. The rice was developed by the godfather of rice, Yuan Longping, at the Qingdao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research And Development Center…

China’s First Space Station Will Fall To Earth Within A Few Months

By: Tom Hale/IFL Science  China’s first space station, Tiangong-1, is doomed to plummet into Earth’s atmosphere within the coming months. Tiangong-1, which means “The Heavenly Palace”, was launched into orbit back in 2011. This relatively small 10.3-meter-long (34-foot-long) space station was China’s first space laboratory module, making it a major milestone in their drive to become a science…

Enormous Meteor With Energy Equal To 540 Tonnes Of TNT Spotted Over China

By: Chris Jones/IFLScience The sky was lit up on the night of 4th October 2017 a meteor tore through the atmosphere over the Shangri-La County in Yunnan Province of China. The meteor was spotted at around 8 pm local time, and luckily, many locals captured the spectacular event on camera. According to NASA’s Center For Near-Earth Object Studies,…

China Will Defend North Korea Against America If The US Attacks First

By: James Holbrooks/ANTIMEDIA  — Allegiances are solidifying in the Asia-Pacific. On Friday, China, which has remained relatively quiet as tensions have spiked between the United States and North Korea over the past week, recognized that “it needs to make clear its stance to all sides” and did so in an editorial in its state-run Global Times: “China should also make clear that…

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