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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.
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.
Areas of Expertise:
Science journalismLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
From oil infrastructure to telecommunications, Chinese investments in the country have been long-standing and extensive.
CHIEF1900 will help to recreate catastrophic events such as dam failures and earthquakes inside a lab, university says.
Chinese team is first outside the US to cross key threshold that determines whether practical quantum computers can work reliably at scale.
Theoretical breakthrough shows that time’s arrow can emerge naturally from how quantum parts become interconnected.
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Emperor Hirohito should be held accountable, according to scholars who say the wartime ruler was shielded from prosecution by US policy.
US researchers and industry experts warn that even the revised version may have unintended consequences.
Consciousness expert Steven Laureys has taken on a role at Hangzhou Normal University amid ‘challenging times’ for science in the US.
Senior biologist Zhang Hong, a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences, fears genuine innovation may be at risk.
Chinese archaeologists invoke Nuremberg in renewed call for a comparable legal reckoning for Japanese atrocities.
Mike Griffin says Artemis programme ‘cannot work’ because of complex design and unproven tech, while Chinese are ‘doing the right things’.
‘Exceptionally precise’ set-up mimics thought experiment devised by sceptical genius to disprove the then-emerging field.
Family alleges Northwestern’s actions during ‘China Initiative’ investigations linked to death of leading researcher.
Interview details rapid response to emergency triggered by a shard of nearly invisible space debris about the size of a grain of dust.
The web of 156 orbiting sensors will form the country’s second space situational awareness constellation designed to bring down the risk of collisions.
The Long March 12A, Zhuque-3 and Tianlong-3 are expected to be used to build the country’s massive internet satellite constellations.
Crack in spacecraft window could signal a shift towards greater cooperation between Beijing and Washington over orbital junk, analysts say.
Thailand’s monarchs in exchange with orbiting crew on board Tiangong station during visit to highly restricted mission control centre in Beijing.
Engineers say they have successfully tested the engine on a missile-shaped target drone, showing that it can operate at high altitudes.
Social media commenters point out anomalies, calling the results ‘nonsense’ and ‘unintentionally funny’.
Officials say ‘emergency plans’ have been activated, while sources say a new return vessel would be sent to replace one hit by debris.
Zhang Bing – considered a leading expert on the mechanisms behind gamma-ray bursts – has relocated after nearly three decades in the US.
Multibillion-dollar research proposal to study Higgs bosons did not make the shortlist for the nation’s next five-year plan, lead scientist says.
Every 100 Chinese students studying in US helps create an extra master’s programme, researchers say.
European scientist is one of the world’s first to use brain-imaging tech to study hidden awareness in unresponsive patients.
Despite rapid advances and fierce competition with China, artificial intelligence shows limitations at Agents4Science event.
Shenzhou-21 crew reaches Tiangong in record time and will conduct 27 scientific experiments during six-month mission.
President tells navy sailors that EMALS is expensive, unreliable and difficult to repair and he plans to sign executive order to abandon it.
Seven international partners deliver experiments for Chang’e-7 as authorities report smooth progress towards 2026 launch.
Chinese-American researchers are finding similarities with chaotic period under Mao Zedong that targeted intellectuals in China.
