Breakthrough could shake-up global tech markets with nations able to run their own grids and break away from US dominance.
19 Dec 2025 - 3:49PM videocam
Huge advancement allows paralysed man to work, order takeaway delivery via robotic dogs and control smart wheelchairs with his thoughts.
18 Dec 2025 - 8:00PM videocam
Capturing and upgrading even a fraction of dissipated energy could transform the country’s industrial efficiency and slash carbon emissions.
16 Dec 2025 - 4:00PM videocam
Scientist whose hydrological models have guarded European cities from rising tides returns to China to tackle critical water challenges.
12 Dec 2025 - 6:08PM videocam
Inspired by ‘novel sustainable technology’ research, the team designs a single, powerful system using solar energy for extraction.
8 Dec 2025 - 10:00PM videocam
Veteran academic to collaborate with Chinese scientists to develop next-gen cancer therapies using vaccine tech for tumour immunotherapy.
8 Dec 2025 - 3:36PM videocam
Confucian trained ‘Wen Dao’ weighs potential societal costs of rule that seals records of convicted drug users.
4 Dec 2025 - 5:00PM videocam
Nation’s sustained funding tsunami over decades has shifted dominance in Earth observation science away from America.
18 Nov 2025 - 9:44AM videocam
What history has long portrayed as a cautionary tale of a woman’s vanity bringing down a dynasty may have been the result of climate change.
17 Nov 2025 - 1:02PM videocam
Now affiliated with Hunan University, the award-winning professor solved a major part of Furstenberg’s conjecture dating to the 1960s.
The move follows distinguished contributions at the University of Chicago towards developing more effective cutting-edge treatments.
10 Nov 2025 - 6:00PM videocam
Scholar mentored by late Nobel Prize winner hails ability in China to translate knowledge into ‘practical application and industrialisation’.
7 Nov 2025 - 9:00PM videocam
The research heavyweight has joined Peking University’s recently elevated school dedicated to robots and advanced manufacturing.
31 Oct 2025 - 4:03PM videocam
After winning accolades in the US for his outstanding research, Xie’s work will continue to focus on effective mRNA-based vaccines.
30 Oct 2025 - 12:00PM videocam
Months after world’s first such surgery for quadriplegia, the traffic officer can stand and walk again with significant upper limb strength.
Famous TCM researcher Wang Qi has seen his sons Qianfei and Qianben return from the US to lead institutes in China.
22 Oct 2025 - 6:59PM videocam
The Baijitan nature reserve’s success has won international acclaim and is underpinned by a simple chequerboard technique.
Hu has been appointed founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University.
14 Dec 2025 - 6:15PM videocam
The electron microscopy pioneer has received one of his country’s highest awards as well as scientific plaudits during a 50-year career.
Recruitment of elite academics from overseas universities is part of China’s strategic plan to surge ahead of global competition.
6 Oct 2025 - 12:50AM videocam
Kenji Mori has been appointed as a full-time professor with the prestigious university’s School of Philosophy.
1 Oct 2025 - 10:00AM videocam
Award-winning Chinese engineer was found dead in his New Jersey home last week.
Malaysian-born scientist known for pioneering separation of C2 previously says he hopes ‘that talent in Taiwan will not flow out’.
24 Sep 2025 - 3:19PM videocam
Information and electronic engineering scholar joins Shenzhen MSU-BIT University (SMBU), a Chinese-foreign cooperative university.
14 Sep 2025 - 7:00PM videocam
Professor’s decision to return to Tsinghua University amid rising tensions and US funding cuts had ‘nothing to do with Trump’.
11 Sep 2025 - 10:10PM videocam
Patriotism, plus ‘a love for education and science’, amid Trump research cuts, sees leading US statistician Liu Jun return to China.
8 Sep 2025 - 9:53AM videocam
The newly appointed Xinghua chair professor at Tsinghua University remains involved in six European research projects.
5 Sep 2025 - 12:15PM videocam
Trump funding cuts have left situation more ‘fluid and unstable’ than at any time in the last 30 years, Tao says.
27 Aug 2025 - 8:12PM videocam
Cao’s new role follows the tech giant’s decision to restrict work by Chinese scientists and relocate Beijing-based researchers to Canada.
22 Aug 2025 - 1:48PM videocam
The industrial software specialist is joining the newly established Eastern Institute of Technology as dean of its engineering college.