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Zero-Covid harming 75% of European firms in China: business group

Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - China's inflexible and inconsistent zero-Covid policy is crippling European business operations in the country, a major business lobby said Wednesday, warning that the presence of the companies can no longer be taken for granted.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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In 1961, a Soviet test over Novaya Zemlya detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb called Tsar Bomba whose mushroom cloud reached 64 kilometres into the sky and whose flash was visible from roughly 1,000 kilometres away, still the largest explosion humans have ever produced

On 30 October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya — a mushroom cloud that climbed 64 kilometres and a flash visible 1,000 kilometres away. More than six decades later, Tsar Bomba is still the largest explosion humans have ever produced.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026

A tiny jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle and making it one of the only known animals with no fixed lifespan

The tiny Mediterranean jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can reverse its own life cycle — dissolving its adult body and reassembling as a juvenile polyp when injured or starving. A look at the biology of the only known animal that can, in principle, live forever.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026

Why did a wealthy delta nation deliberately breach its own dykes and pay farmers to let the rivers flood their fields, after four centuries of building the walls ever higher?

After the near-miss floods of 1993 and 1995, the Netherlands spent €2.3 billion on Room for the River — deliberately widening channels, relocating dykes, and paying farmers to accept seasonal flooding on 30 sites, reversing four centuries of hydraulic doctrine.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026

The USS Nautilus became the first submarine to cross beneath the North Pole in August 1958, travelling 2,945 kilometres under the Arctic ice cap on a single reactor core without surfacing

On August 3, 1958, the USS Nautilus became the first vessel to reach the North Pole by water, sliding beneath the polar ice cap on nuclear power and proving that submarines no longer needed the surface at all.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026

How did a temple complex in southern Anatolia get built roughly 6,000 years before Stonehenge by people who had neither metal tools nor the wheel?

The riddle of Göbekli Tepe: how did hunter-gatherers move and erect massive stone pillars with nothing but flint and determination, millennia before civilization itself took root.

By Space War Editorial Team · Jul 28, 2026

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