China planned to launch the Chang'e-2, the country's second lunar probe, at the end of 2010, the State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense said Monday.
A team of Chinese and U.S. paleontologists have discovered a species of dinosaur, living some125 million years ago in northeast China, could deliver poison via its fangs to help it hunt down its prey.
China will put into space a civil high-definition survey satellite, the first of its kind in the country, in 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) said here Friday.
Spending on research and development (R&D), science and technology saw year-on-year increase in China in 2008, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)said Tuesday.
China sent into space a remote-sensing satellite "Yaogan VIII" from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Tuesday morning, according to the center.
China launched Wednesday a remote-sensing satellite, "Yaogan VII," from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province.
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