The World: Shanghai What-If: How a Shock Can Become a Shock Wave
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In China, the stock market dominos could fall. But a collapse would not resemble 1997âs.
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Yesterday China Herald tipped me that the Yahoo.com website (the English version) didn&#8217;t resolve. I checked, saw that it was true and thought I would check back the next day if the situation had changed.  At times these things happen here in China and it could have been a technical problem instead of a block. [...]
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Typhoon Wipha flooded streets and prompted mass evacuations as it swept through eastern China on Wednesday, but the storm eventually weakened and caused little damage in the financial center of Shanghai. One man was electrocuted.
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&quot;In the unlikely event that it did hit, it would be quite serious. Weâre talking either a tsunami if it hit in the ocean, which would be likely, or significant ground damage&quot; - Dr Donald Yeomans, NASA Near Earth Object Program manager.
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Tycho:  I've been au Canada at Hothead since Monday, making a final pass on the entire script and writing new stuff for things we managed to fit into the first ep.  After two days of this process, I feel as though my brain has been dragging a plough through a stubborn field.  Like every other part of this adventure, it's been profoundly educational.  I enjoy it, but there is a constant electrical hum in my skull that I assume is the byproduct of creating a universe in real time.
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The emerging science of infrasound may help track -- or even predict -- earthquakes and other disasters. By John Geirland from Wired magazine.
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SPACE.com / Nearly 2,000 years ago, Chinese astronomers spotted a bright light materializing in the night sky. Turns out the skywatchers had witnessed the spectacular explosion of a dying star.
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With a blast that made skyscrapers tremble, an 83-year-old steam pipe sent a powerful message that the miles of tubes, wires and iron beneath New York and other U.S. cities are getting older and could become dangerously unstable.
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Readers report their experiences of the earthquakes and huge waves that have devastated parts of Asia.
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China beckons stock investors with the lure of brisk economic growth. Yet a school of prominent China watchers, led by Morgan Stanley strategist  Andy Xie, warns that the domestic overheating could lead to a "hard landing" in sectors ranging from steel to real estate. The Chinese government, worried about that very thing, is trying to rein in the torrid expansion.
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A breve termine, a causa di una domanda molto dinamica
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Explosive growth has made the People's Republic of China the most power-hungry nation on Earth. Get ready for the mass-produced, meltdown-proof future of nuclear energy. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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China either didn't know or didn't care that its test of a satellite killer would produce a spray of space debris. Either way, it's worrisome for the future use of space.  Another question is why China even bothered.
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A year ago, China blasted a weather satellite out of orbit, and threw the international community into panic. But despite fears of a "space Pearl Habor," MIT's Geoffrey Forden finds, the United States could withstand China's worst assault above the skies.
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From terrorism to the tech meltdown, here's a look at how a perfect storm gave rise to a boom and then a new meltdown.
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Tragedy in Asia spurs interest in manufacturer of earthquake shock absorbers.
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Chemical plant gas blast injures 23 in central China city    YICHANG, June 11 (Xinhua) -- At least 23 people were injured in gas explosion at a chemical plant in central China's Hubei Province Monday evening.   The blast occurred at around 8:38 p.m.