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China said foreign embassies were acting illegally in issuing their own air quality readings and that only the government could release data on the nation's heavy pollution.

until recently, official air quality measurements regularly rated their air quality as good

data from the US embassy in Beijing showed off-the-chart pollution

China's robotic Chang'e 3 mission, reportedly slated to blast off toward the end of 2013

Chang'e 3 will become China's first craft to attempt a soft landing and rover deployment on the surface of the moon

the nation's manned spaceflight program continues to move forward. Three "taikonauts" arrived at China's Tiangong 1 space module on June 13, beginning a 12-day stint aboard the orbiting laboratory

paleontologists has characterized a new dinosaur based on fossil remains found in northwestern China

The species, a plant-eating sauropod named Yongjinglong datangi, roamed during the Early Cretaceous period, more than 100 million years ago

At roughly 50-60 feet long, the Yongjinglong individual discovered was a medium-sized Titanosaur

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successful touchdown of the

Chang’e-3 probe with the ‘Yutu’ rover on the surface of the Moon

Yutu woke up

Saturday, Jan. 11, at 5:09 a.m. Beijing local time

Chang’e-3 lander was awoken on Sunday, Jan. 12, at 8:21 a.m. Beijing local time, according to a BACC statement

The six wheeled Yutu rover, which means ‘Jade Rabbit’, has “experienced a mechanical control abnormality” in a new report by China’s official government newspaper, The People’s Daily. Remove this ad

‘Jade Rabbit’ was traversing southwards from the landing site as the incident occurred just days ago – about six weeks into its planned 3 month moon roving expedition

very few details have emerged or been released by the Chinese government about Yutu’s condition or fate

The apparently unfortunate and sad breaking news was just reported today in an ultra brief dispatch by the English language version of Chinadaily – with the headline “Loss of lunar rover.”

thought that Yutu froze to death due to a pre-hibernation mechanical malfunction and failed to wake up and communicate with China’s mission controllers

Beijing on Monday, Feb. 10, when daylight returned to the rovers Moon landing site at Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) at the start of what would have been Lunar Day 3 for the mission.

The serious technical malfunction

of China’s Yutu moon rover

has been identified as an inability to properly maneuver the life giving solar panels

China successfully launched its first ever lunar rover bound for the Moon’s surface aboard a Long March rocket

at 1:30 a.m. Beijing local time, Dec. 2, 2013 (12:30 p.m. EST, Dec. 1) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.

The name for the ‘Yutu’ rover – which translates as ‘Jack Rabbit’ – was chosen after a special naming contest involving a worldwide poll and voting to select the best name

First Chinese satellite

In 1970, the People's Republic of China became the fifth nation with a satellite in orbit with the launch of DFH-1, from Jiuquab Satellite Launch Center. It had a design life of 15 days, and for propaganda, it transmitted the Communist China national anthem, The East is Red (in Chinese "Dongfanghong," hence the initials DFH). It had a 72-face polyhedral shape, 1-m diam., mass 173-kg. It was followed by on 3 Mar 1971 by a second DFH named SJ-1 (Practice-1). The first four nations with satellites in space were the USSR (Sputnik on 4 Oct 1957), the U.S. (Explorer-I on 31 Jan 1958), France (Astrix-1 on 26 Nov 1965 and Japan (Osumi 5, 11 Feb 1970). After China, Britain launched its Prospero satellite on 28 Oct 1972)

Figures at a glance

Numerous feathered dinosaur specimens have recently been recovered from the Middle–Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous deposits of northeastern China, but most of them represent small animals1

shares some features, particularly of the cranium, with derived tyrannosauroids2

Artist's impression of Yutyrannus and the smaller Beipiaosaurus. Image: Brian Choo

covered from head to tail in downy feathers.

30 feet long and weighing 3,000 pounds, Y. huali wasn’t so large as T. rex,

Photos of a rare Amur tiger, caught on film for the first time in Wangqing Nature Reserve in northeast China’s Changbai mountains, are giving hope to tiger recovery efforts in the region.

captured two photos of the tiger in April

provide evidence of the extension of the Amur tiger’s range

As night fell on Jan. 25, the rover entered its second two week long period of dormancy just as the rover “experienced a mechanical control abnormality,” according to a report by China’s official government newspaper, The People’s Daily.

concerned that it might not be able to survive the extremely low temperatures during the lunar night

Experts wer

The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense.

Over the past two years

catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013