Beijing University has unveiled plans to build the largest telescope in Asia to close the gap in astronomical development with Western countries, Space.com reports.

A team of international experts from Cambridge, Harvard, Washington Universities, as well as scientists from the University of Bar-Ilan and Haifa proved the advantage of women in cognitive empathy, that is, in the ability to represent and identify other people's thoughts and emotions, according to an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.

Yandex, VK, Rostelecom and Sberbank plan to create a company that will develop a new mobile operating system (OS) based on Android platform, potentially able to replace Google Mobile Services, Kommersant reports.

The South Korean spacecraft KPLO (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter), also called Danuri, went into space for the first time and successfully anchored in the orbit of the Moon, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Korea.

In 2023, Russia, India and the European Space Agency will launch missions to the Moon and deep space. This follows NASA's recent Artemis I mission, which orbited the Moon with the Orion spacecraft, which is intended to take humans to the Moon and Mars in the future. The BBC writes about this in its review of upcoming space launches.

The first in the CIS ultra-fast charging complex for electric vehicles and electric buses was opened in Minsk on Tuesday. Equipment, technologies and programs are developed by Belarusian specialists.

Schoolchildren and students participating in the national team of Turkmenistan won silver medals in the team event at the international competitions in informatics and robotics in Baku. Young engineers took second place, outstripping worthy and talented rivals from dozens of countries: Great Britain, Israel, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,- the Azerbaijani press writes.

NASA engineers have begun to manufacture the first components of the space "asteroid hunter" NEO Surveyor, which will search for potentially dangerous asteroids. This is reported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the official website.

NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of traveling in space and exploring Mars. Over the years, the InSight probe has collected a lot of unique scientific data about the Red Planet, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

The UAE has started testing new biometric technologies at Abu Dhabi International Airport, allowing flights without having to present a passport, Arabian Business writes.