Adam Minter

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A catastrophic space collision is a possibility

Scientists and experts feel that space junk, long feared, is now an imminent threat

There’s also the risk that collisions could be misinterpreted as something other than an accident

COVID-19: When street food gets sanitised

Coronavirus is ending an era in which workers and their bosses eat at the same stalls

People buy food from a street vendor at an intersection in Beijing on June 9, 2020.

SpaceX has taken a giant step in manned flights

Musk must prove that his company’s human-capable flights have a commercial market

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard on the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Why Chinese scientists are buying return tickets

Investments in education and research facilities are luring them back to China’s labs

The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (Fast) in China.

Asia should fix its megacities, not move them

Relocating 1.5m bureaucrats will not relieve problems for millions left behind in Jakarta

A general view shows the business district in the capital Jakarta, Indonesia.

Southeast Asia no longer wants the world’s trash

The flow of recyclables could be made smoother by lowering tariffs on such material

A Westport Holdings Bhd employee uses a forklift to move trash during a presentation to the media of containers filled with plastic waste at Port Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

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