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Smuggling ban drives North Korean units to cheap Chinese work

North Korea’s foreign currency-earning units are scrambling for low-paying contract manufacturing work from China in October 2026. A prolonged crackdown on cross-border smuggling has wiped out one of their...

Satellite imagery maps 23 towers at North Korea’s Voice of Korea transmitter site

Satellite imagery of a shortwave radio transmitter site in Hyangsan county, Jagang province, shows...

Why is North Korea opening bulgogi restaurants when meat is so scarce?

North Korea has opened a string of state-run bulgogi restaurants across the country since...

North Korea uses DMZ landmine blast to step up student military drills

North Korean authorities are using last month’s DMZ landmine explosion to justify tougher military...

Satellite Losses Show Threat Solar Storms Pose to Tech

As if we didn't have enough to worry about: Some scientists are warning about the inevitable catastrophic effects on modern life from a super-sized...

China Suspected of Cyberattacks Targeting US Organizations

Media giant News Corp is investigating a cyberattack that has accessed the email and documents of some of its employees and journalists. On Friday, New...

Homo sapiens may have reached Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought

Homo sapiens may have reached Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought https://ift.tt/9Nrius1 Stone Age Homo sapiens began migrating into Europe much longer ago...

European ‘freedom convoy’ eyes major Valentine’s Day protest in Brussels against COVID-19 measures

You might want to reconsider going for a romantic dinner on Valentine’s Day in Brussels — as the city is likely to be completely...

Former Macron ally’s startup project raises questions over revolving doors oversight

PARIS — Pierre Person, an MP for Emmanuel Macron’s La République En Marche (LREM) party, has been in talks with potential partners and investors...

Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core

Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core https://ift.tt/9Nrius1 A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be...

How the Human Genome Project revolutionized understanding of our DNA

How the Human Genome Project revolutionized understanding of our DNA https://ift.tt/5zTwByk In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious...

European Parliament to set up Pegasus inquiry

Members of the European Parliament will set up an inquiry committee to look into the Pegasus spyware scandal. Last July, an international investigation revealed that...

How one scientist aims to boost Black people’s representation in genetic datasets

How one scientist aims to boost Black people’s representation in genetic datasets https://ift.tt/rsWm5XS Nearly two decades after researchers assembled the first genetic blueprint for...

Digital euro bill due early 2023

The European Commission announced Wednesday it’s planning to propose a bill for a digital euro early next year. The bill will serve as the legal...

Russian broadcaster RT appeals against German ban

Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT announced Wednesday that it is appealing to a German court to “overturn” a ban on its broadcasting. RT said in a statement...

Fossils reveal that pterosaurs puked pellets

Fossils reveal that pterosaurs puked pellets https://ift.tt/HVwpivm Picture it: Two hungry pterosaurs, one adult and one juvenile, settle down to dig in to a...

Deep-sea Arctic sponges feed on fossilized organisms to survive

Deep-sea Arctic sponges feed on fossilized organisms to survive https://ift.tt/HVwpivm In the cold, dark depths of the Arctic Ocean, a feast of the dead...

Europe has a chips plan — here are 6 things that could kill it

The EU on Tuesday presented a €43 billion plan to turbo-charge its microchips sector by 2030. For it to work it’ll have to overcome...

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