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Award-winning young materials scientist Li Yongxi has left the US in favour of a research position in China. Photo: Nanjing University
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China’s young talent scheme lures smart materials scientist Li Yongxi from US

Nanjing University website says Li has taken a position as an associate professor at its Suzhou campus.

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Former Harvard professor convicted over China ties joins Tsinghua University

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Chinese AI scientists may threaten US tech dominance, think tank says

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China’s daytime laser ranging breakthrough takes moon race to new heights

The test by China’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) expands the limits of the technology and is expected to help achieve future deep space missions.

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China’s Tiandu-1 satellite has taken part in a laser ranging experiment in Earth-moon space under strong daylight conditions, which the satellite’s developer said is a first. Image: CCTV
China’s Tiandu-1 satellite has taken part in a laser ranging experiment in Earth-moon space under strong daylight conditions, which the satellite’s developer said is a first. Image: CCTV
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China’s Shenzhou-19 astronauts return home after forced landing site switch

Strong winds delay crew’s landing after six months on board the Tiangong space station.

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Chinese university recruits South Korean semiconductor expert Lee Young-hee

Lee has taken a job as the head of a quantum materials research centre in Hubei province.

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US is urged to mine seabeds for critical minerals in counter to China

Witnesses tell Congressional panel that to break Beijing’s rare earths dominance, Washington must promote ocean mining of elements.

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Manganese nodules at 5,500 meters deep. Witnesses told a US congressional hearing on Tuesday that Washington should expedite excavating resources from seabeds to counter China’s dominance of critical minerals. Photo: Jamstec/AFP
Manganese nodules at 5,500 meters deep. Witnesses told a US congressional hearing on Tuesday that Washington should expedite excavating resources from seabeds to counter China’s dominance of critical minerals. Photo: Jamstec/AFP
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China’s EUV breakthrough, tariffs damage already done: SCMP daily highlights

From cracking a barrier in China’s home-grown production of advanced chips to Mao inspiring trade warriors, here’s a round-up from today’s coverage.

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Senior AI scientist Alex Lamb once shrugged off China. Now he’s joining Tsinghua

Lamb has trained under a Turing Award winner and worked at top companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s DeepMind.

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China is developing an ‘Underwater BeiDou’ network for navigation and tracking

Research team under natural resources ministry says prototypes have been built and tested but it’s not clear what stage the project is at.

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A team on the research vessel Shen Kuo arrives at a deep-sea station in the western Pacific in 2018. The undersea network is also expected to provide support for scientific observation. Photo: Xinhua
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Exclusive | China’s Tsinghua University snags top American AI researcher from Microsoft

Lamb will join the prestigious school’s College of AI and has already started accepting applications from prospective PhD and master’s students.

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Tsinghua University in Beijing started its College of AI in April 2024. Photo: Shutterstock
Tsinghua University in Beijing started its College of AI in April 2024. Photo: Shutterstock
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China defies ASML prediction with EUV breakthrough in advanced chip production

Research team achieves world-class results in photolithography research with solid-state laser-driven approach, paper shows.

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China’s high-power microwave gun fires 10,000 shots in test, proving vacuum tech

Successful trials of gun that emits beams capable of attacking drones, missiles and more signal breakthrough in directed-energy weaponry.

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A fiery conquest in 112BC may have led to decline of the Chinese swamp cypress

Han military campaign toppled the rebel Nanyue kingdom but also decimated vast stands of cypress, study finds.

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There are fewer than 1,000 Chinese swamp cypress trees left in the wild. Photo: Paul Leader
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China plans space traffic management system amid commercial satellite boom

National space body says it needs to keep space ‘sustainable’ as projections show number of satellites in low Earth orbit could hit 100,000.

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Several Chinese firms are developing large satellite constellations. Photo: Shutterstock
Several Chinese firms are developing large satellite constellations. Photo: Shutterstock
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How the list of China-born leaders in global science is steadily growing

More Chinese scientists are taking on prestigious leadership roles at US academic societies.

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China to harness nation’s resources to AI self-reliance ambitions

President Xi Jinping tells Politburo the country must redouble efforts to overcome bottlenecks in core technology.

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Why does Chinese entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu shun jobseekers educated overseas?

Chinese businesswoman divides opinion by saying her company won’t hire overseas-educated executives due to security concerns.

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Dong Mingzhu (left), with President Xi Jinping at Gree’s moulding plant back in 2018, has divided opinion with her latest comments about overseas educated jobseekers. Photo: Xinhua
Dong Mingzhu (left), with President Xi Jinping at Gree’s moulding plant back in 2018, has divided opinion with her latest comments about overseas educated jobseekers. Photo: Xinhua
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China-born scientist forged a rare-earth-free magnet. Will it help the West?

The race is on to commercialise technology that could overcome China’s dominance of the supply of critical minerals.

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SCMP Highlights

China’s stealth jet breakthrough, Thai ranger fired over slur: 7 highlights

From China unveiling a stealth jet advance to Hong Kong Mandarin Oriental hotel’s makeover, here are highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

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US scientists given access to moon rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-5 probe

Chinese space agency says American scientists will be among the international researchers allowed to study lunar samples.

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The Chang’e-5 lunar probe brought samples back to Earth in 2020. Photo: Reuters
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Award-winning chemist Shang Rui will leave Japan to start a lab in China

Shang will join Westlake University, where he will establish a new laboratory focused on sustainable catalysis and functional molecules.

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Professor Shang Rui, a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo, will take up a position at Westlake University in China this year. Photo: Handout
Professor Shang Rui, a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo, will take up a position at Westlake University in China this year. Photo: Handout
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China launches Shenzhou-20 spacecraft to install space debris defence devices

On board Tiangong space station, crew trio will conduct cutting-edge experiments on tissue regeneration, human-machine collaboration systems.

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China’s new journal publishing benchmarks set to boost scientific soft power

Beijing aims to assert voice in global academic discourse by overhauling grading system that covers thousands of Chinese scientific journals.

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Eat, prey, eat: fossil find in China reveals unusual dinosaur-mammal food chain

Fossilised remains of newly identified dinosaur species and mammal suggest they were both predator and quarry to each other.

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The findings point to a complex dynamic between dinosaurs and mammals 125 million years ago. Illustration: Handout
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