Science
From lunar landings to genome breakthroughs, Asia-Pacific’s labs are quietly setting the pace. The research the West will be citing for years — while it’s still new.
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Aug- 2026 -17 August
China is racing to write the Moon’s rules before America lands
Chang'e‑7 launches this month to drill for water ice at the south pole, two years ahead of NASA's crewed Artemis IV landing, positioning Beijing to unilaterally set governance standards for…
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14 August
India’s cancer screening gap just got a dog-and-AI solution to test
A Bengaluru startup is running a 10,000-patient Phase 3 trial to validate whether trained dogs detecting cancer in breath samples can serve as a low-cost prescreening tool where organized screening…
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Jul- 2026 -25 July
Three broken systems lock oral cancer stem cells in place
A convergence model in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences reveals that bioelectric signaling, gap junction communication, and Hippo-YAP pathway dysregulation act as redundant safeguards, each capable of maintaining treatment…
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22 July
Russia’s nuclear retreat opens Central Asia to Beijing and Washington
Rosatom announced a 50% investment cut on June 26, forcing Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to weigh Chinese state-backed reactors and U.S. small modular designs against a cash-starved Russian incumbent.
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13 July
Thailand found a giant dinosaur that shouldn’t have lived here
A single fossil vertebra from northeastern Thailand reveals Uragasaurus kalasinensis, an 18-metre long-necked sauropod and the first mamenchisaurid ever confirmed in mainland Southeast Asia.
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12 July
A former Pentagon official claims secret moon photos exist. NASA says they don’t.
Luis Elizondo asserted on a podcast that the U.S. government holds photographs of monolithic lunar structures, but provided no images, timeline, or independent verification despite NASA's complete 0.5-meter-resolution mapping showing…
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Jun- 2026 -25 June
East Asia’s biotech autonomy is already making drugs slower and costlier
The COINS Act, introduced June 21, 2026, will screen US biotech investments in China, forcing Western drugmakers to duplicate trials and manufacturing across rival blocs—a tax that eventually lands on…
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May- 2026 -21 May
New giant sauropod Nagatitan challenges assumptions about mega-herbivore evolution in Asia
A new giant sauropod species, Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, has been formally described in Scientific Reports on May 14, 2026, based on fossils first unearthed in 2016 near a public pond in…
