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Two astronauts with the U.S. space agency, NASA, left the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday to conduct a spacewalk to replace a broken antenna system, two days after the walk was postponed over concerns about space debris.NASA astronauts Thoma…

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that 100,000 Americans died of drug overdose between May 2020 and April 2021 — a nearly 30% increase over the previous year.While not an official count, the CDC says it can confirm 98,000 dea…

A student from the United States on Tuesday won the top prize in a Mandarin public speaking contest in Taipei, in which the contestants, all foreign nationals, described their experience in Taiwan or shared other personal viewpoints.Adam Boxer, one of …

A 36-year-old Swedish scholar has won an early-career research achievement award Friday from the Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s top research institute, for his study of the Manchu language.Mårten Söderblom Saarela is among nine recipients of the Academia Si…

National Taiwan University (NTU) has held onto 19th place for the second consecutive year in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings released Tuesday.Taiwan’s largest university and home to more than 32,000 students, NTU scored 90.8 out …

Kaohsiung, The French Office in Taipei and Kaohsiung-based National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Thursday on setting up a scholarship program to encourage students from the university to pursue short-term…

After confirming Tuesday it had fallen victim to hackers for the second time recently, Acer has announced a plan to open a school aimed at cultivating Taiwan’s next generation of cybersecurity talent.Although stating that time was still needed to iron …