The New York Times18d
China’s Population Declines for 3rd Straight Year
By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has tried it all, even declaring having babies ...
Reuters18d
China's population falls for a third consecutive year
HONG KONG, Jan 17 (Reuters) - China's population fell for a third consecutive year in 2024, with the number of deaths outpacing a slight increase in births, and experts cautioning that the trend ...
Scientific American26d
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program Faces Stark Choices
NASA’s troubled Mars Sample Return program is stuck at a crossroads—and is likely to remain in limbo until at least 2026—agency officials said at a press briefing on Tuesday. To bring this ...
Ars Technica27d
NASA defers decision on Mars Sample Return to the Trump administration
To keep those launch schedules, Congress must immediately approve $300 million for Mars Sample Return in this year's budget, Nelson said. NASA officials didn't identify any examples of a ...
ABC News27d
NASA exploring two lower-cost options to go forward with Mars Sample Return mission
The goal of the Mars Sample Return Program, which is being planned jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA), is to retrieve samples of rock, gas and loose surface material that were collected ...