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
Chinese specialist leaves US for Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital to research eye transplants and work on virtual cells to test drug responses.
House committee on China releases results of investigations into some 30 scientists as chairman pushes for stricter research security rules.
Mystery glow seen in the Milky Way could be the result of a violent collision between two orbiting neutron stars, according to scientists.
Chinese and European teams in ‘fierce but friendly’ competition to develop the next-generation timepieces.
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The decade-long project could help to pave the way for a redefinition of the second, researchers claim in a new paper.
Key details about semiconductor scientist’s visit from US federal agents the day before he took his own life mysteriously wiped from report.
Research papers suggest the historic operation occurred in February last year, a manoeuvre that could have military implications.
The tech uses subtle shifts in starlight to track speed and position, allowing spacecraft to navigate deep space alone.
The Sugon 8,000 system can predict weather 10 days in advance, bringing the country closer to its ambitious forecasting goals.
Compact and portable device can be used to analyse fossils and archaeological relics in the field, developer says.
Survey identifies more than 156,000 extragalactic sources, offering an unprecedented pool for studying the universe’s biggest questions.
US defence agency launches next-generation weapons project a year after PLA unveiled pioneering hypersonic missiles in military parade.
The project will involve partners from at least five other countries as they track the development of space weather.
Study models how geopolitical tension could extend into orbit with rival spacecraft dogfighting, evading each other or blocking strategic routes.
Researchers developed a material that they say opens up a ‘novel approach’ to recover the nuclear fuel from the world’s oceans.
Data rates during two-way laser link between Earth and the moon were well behind US experiment over a decade ago.
Described as warm, generous, unassuming and deeply devoted to his work, Gong was a pioneer of space debris research.
Postponement of ‘especially ambitious’ Chang’e-7 no surprise to space specialists, but the US agency will not be celebrating.
Joint project with Peru will start with field surveys in the Caral zone, which is home to the oldest known urban centre in the Americas.
Zhuque-3 reaches orbit and has its first stage recovered, pulling off a dual-track strategy even the US has yet to execute.
The vice-admiral is the latest prominent expert to be removed from the prestigious national engineering institution’s membership list.
Scientists develop ’robust, easy, industry-ready’ approach to making large, energy efficient modules from the ultra-thin material.
Chinese and Iranian natural science foundations include the strategically sensitive metals in this year’s joint workshop programme.
Long March-7A explodes less than 90 seconds into flight, delaying ChinaSat-4B satellite installation and possibly affecting other programmes.
Global experts praise team for solving 50-year-old puzzle, while Chinese social media buzzes with Nobel Prize predictions.
Custom-designed machines could identify hazards on the moon and help astronauts collect rock samples, source water ice, researchers say.
Cygnus X-3 provides opportunity to test how black holes and other objects launch particles to highest energies in the Milky Way, team says.
China’s two-pronged method could blast apart an Earth-threatening space rock using a 3-megaton explosion equivalent to 200 Hiroshima bombs.
Even among American-based scientists, those with Chinese surnames had lower publication rates than those without, team finds.
