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Dannie Peng
Senior Reporter, China
Dannie joined SCMP in 2023 and focuses on science stories in China, with a particular interest in the scientific community and societal impacts of scientific advances. She previously worked for China Newsweek, covering topics including China's healthcare system, public health and science. She has won several awards for her investigative reporting.
Dannie joined SCMP in 2023 and focuses on science stories in China, with a particular interest in the scientific community and societal impacts of scientific advances. She previously worked for China Newsweek, covering topics including China's healthcare system, public health and science. She has won several awards for her investigative reporting.
Areas of Expertise:
Science, health, techLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
Researchers say their sensor can monitor levels of the neurotransmitter in real time, bringing at-home health management ‘closer to reality’.
Online ‘weather enthusiasts’ in China are posting typhoon predictions, prompting criticism from state media.
As Washington and Beijing lock horns over national security, political friction may be dismantling decades of fruitful shared discovery.
Chen Liquan and Ben De recognised for advances in solid-state energy storage and military aviation defence.
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Tianwen-2 spacecraft is equipped with varying sampling modes to perform best in uncertain terrain of 2016 HO3 asteroid.
Analysis of 70 audit reports across 43 higher education institutions reveals misuse of funds and poor expenditure tracking.
Novel approach would ‘fundamentally change’ model for small liquid-fuel launch vehicles, including ending reliance on fixed launch pads.
Latest in-orbit results from prototype Qingzhou cargo spacecraft show China is testing cameras, refrigeration and bio-support capsule.
Solar-powered innovation has shown year-long stability with zero utility energy costs, thanks to a new type of photothermal material.
Report showing global progress on 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals shows gap between Chinese and US closed significantly since 2015.
Unprecedented downpours prompt warning that links and systems adapted to an arid past may struggle to cope with a wetter future.
Complaints growing about a ‘grey industry’ catering to the need for published papers and attendance at specialist events.
A project in the coal-rich north is turning the tough solids of gangue into construction-grade aggregates and other high-value materials.
Graveyard discovered by Chinese team is Earth’s deepest and most extensive for whale fossils, carcasses and the ecosystems they support.
Senior reporter Dannie Peng visited Xinjiang in April to see first-hand how a vast industrial ecosystem is rapidly taking shape.
Rare and early surge in encounters across Beijing is causing alarm, although experts say most snakes are non-venomous.
Cartographer with business empire in spatial data and low-altitude economy suspected of ‘serious violations of duty’.
Liu Bin, former Zhejiang University professor who discovered the Liangzhu ruins, admits taking bribes and embezzlement.
Deadly explosion reveals the hurdles facing the mining hub as it tries to tap into greener sectors such as tourism.
Industry insiders say untracked workers, ‘hidden’ coal pits and airflow issues likely contributed to explosion that killed at least 82.
Shanghai researchers engineer biological pacemaker that could offer a new way to control abnormal heart rhythms.
With the war in Iran choking global oil supplies, China is tapping its 390 billion tonnes of coal reserves to build its own energy source.
A joint archaeological project between Greece’s culture ministry and a Chinese team of researchers is breaking new ground.
A national energy and chemical hub being built on a 15,500 sq m site in the Gobi Desert is set to modernise coal mining.
A leading Chinese neurologist says publicly available data shows a clear lead in the development of stem cell treatments.
Scientists around the world have been trying to master the techniques needed to produce the innovative material.
The unveiling of the high-octane fuel at the Taklimakan Rally comes on the back of international success for the ZXMOTO motorbike marque.
Unlike other models, the machine does not need to be kept at ultra-low temperatures and is easier to maintain.
The Shuanglin K7 is the world’s first mining truck capable of moving sideways and pivoting on the spot, allowing it to work in narrow pits.
