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Ling Xin
Reporter, China
Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio. She mainly covers physics, astronomy and space. Her writing has appeared in Science, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review and other English and Chinese outlets. She was a visiting journalist at Science magazine in Washington, and has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Ma says lack of due process by Indiana University is devastating after she and Wang were dismissed within days of each other.
Amid China Initiative era and pressure on Chinese research community, police report concluded Tao died by suicide amid ‘work-related stress’.
Hefei team use China’s superconducting quantum computer Origin Wukong to fine-tune a large language model, researcher says.
‘These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ chief designer says.
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Scientific mission collects specimens from ocean depths of 6,000 metres in first crewed exploration of Tasman Sea trench.
As construction finishes on China’s High Energy Photon Source, scientists are lining up to use it to further their research.
If 100 megawatt hybrid plant is on schedule, it could put China decades ahead of comparable efforts in the rest of the world.
Fu Tianfan leaves tenure-track assistant professor position in New York state for new research opportunities, and Nanjing University’s ‘fertile ground’.
After a decade in America, a leading computer scientist has returned to China to head a top artificial intelligence lab.
Zhan joins university named on US Entity List because of ties to China’s military after involvement in many American research projects.
Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape by 2035.
Chinese team hammers out atom-thin materials that may enable smaller, faster devices.
Short deadline for science project submissions suggests Tianwen-3 could be on track to win race to bring samples back to Earth.
Song Guo Zheng was jailed for failing to disclose his China ties under a controversial initiative to counter alleged Chinese espionage.
A top academic has returned to China as a professor at the new Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences.
He will continue work in intelligent control, optimisation and the dynamics of complex systems as professor at Shenzhen university.
The former Meta researcher joins Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou where he will focus on optimising network efficiencies.
The agreement is the latest sign of the close cooperation between the two countries, which will also see a Pakistani rover going to the moon.
Peking University and Microsoft research teams’ papers reveal very different approaches to achieving stable, error-free qubits.
Chinese firm says its ‘native sparse attention’ (NSA) method offers AI efficiency by focusing only on key words and skipping unnecessary comparisons.
Breakthrough marks initial step towards mutual adaptation between biological and machine intelligence, according to study.
Team from Nanjing research institute has been developing greener, more durable engineered bamboo technologies.
Chien-Shiung Wu’s trailblazing but largely forgotten achievement features in a recent profile of the influential physicist.
In the darkness of the ocean depths, Chinese scientists are hoping to solve one of the enduring mysteries of the universe.
Chinese internet users react to claim that USAID-funded research led to creation of the virus, contradicting scientific consensus.
Research paves way for potentially revolutionary advances in energy conversion technologies that could lead to more efficient heat engines.
Liu Kuo and Chen Siyuan were part of multinational group that won Royal Astronomical Society award for work on nanohertz gravitational waves.
Megaproject aims for ‘original, landmark and leading-edge scientific breakthroughs as soon as possible’, according to state media.
Detection of electromagnetic fluctuations that generate ‘killer electrons’ challenges scientific ideas about radiation in our cosmic neighbourhood.
