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Project leader Cai Yunjie at the launch in May of China’s first privately-funded scientific research vessel. Photo: Getty Images
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Why is no one chartering China’s first privately owned research vessel?

A month after launch, the fishermen who sank 150 million yuan into the project have yet to secure their first client.

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China tests satellite-linked tracking devices on China-Europe railway express

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In China’s 6G smart city, every wall and pipe can be a sensor

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US-China relations

US officials fear ‘supervillain’ China pulling ahead in AI race even a little

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Senator Jim Banks expressed concerns about China eroding America’s lead.

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US Senator Jim Banks, seen in 2023, has warned that America must fend off efforts by China to catch up with its AI lead. Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
US Senator Jim Banks, seen in 2023, has warned that America must fend off efforts by China to catch up with its AI lead. Photo: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek on hiring spree – seeks newcomers, not just AI geniuses

The Chinese AI giant is looking to double in size as it seeks to become a ‘driving force’ in the creation of artificial general intelligence.

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China ‘on track to surpass United States’ in goals for human, planet health: UN

Report showing global progress on 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals shows gap between Chinese and US closed significantly since 2015.

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Semiconductors | Could China’s photonic chips help it leapfrog US on AI?

Light-based chips could take over AI model training and inference from US-made GPUs – and launch next-generation optical computing.

Could China’s photonic chips help it leapfrog US on AI?
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The end of junior lawyers? How a new AI tool is transforming China’s law firms

‘The industry has become unwelcoming to inexperienced newcomers, prompting many to switch careers’: Beijing-based legal officer.

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Drowning desert: how Xinjiang’s infrastructure could fail under record rain

Unprecedented downpours prompt warning that links and systems adapted to an arid past may struggle to cope with a wetter future.

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Chinese scientists love Blackpink’s Jennie so much they named a fish after her

At less than 9mm, Jennie’s bumblebee goby is the smallest of its genus and the first to be found in China.

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Jennie of Blackpink is the latest K-pop artist to inspire a scientific name. Photo: Getty Images
US-China relations

‘China Initiative 2.0’: US crackdown on Chinese scholars intensifies

Immigration lawyers and activists claim the Trump Administration has ramped up its targeting of Chinese scientists and researchers in US.

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Chinese semiconductor researcher Wang Danhao died at the University of Michigan in March, shortly after being questioned by US federal law enforcement. Photo: Handout
Chinese semiconductor researcher Wang Danhao died at the University of Michigan in March, shortly after being questioned by US federal law enforcement. Photo: Handout
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China’s LineShine beats US El Capitan in Top500 supercomputer rankings

Built in Shenzhen, it regained the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for China since Sunway TaihuLight’s achievement in 2017.

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China builds record-breaking 100-metre observation tower in South China Sea

Built to withstand super typhoons, the structure will help collect detailed information about atmospheric conditions and extreme weather.

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China’s new ‘super fuel’ could help Long March rockets increase payload by 10%

With conventional engines reaching their limits, researchers have been trying to find ways to boost fuel efficiency.

A Long March-12 was launched last week using a new fuel mixture. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese scientists create battery that works comfortably way above boiling point

The tiny ceramic-based lithium-ion battery can withstand heat and still operate at up to 150 degrees Celsius, making it a safer power source.

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Researchers have developed a tiny, ceramic-based lithium-ion battery that can operate at extreme temperatures and power devices such as wearable electronics. Photo: Shutterstock
Researchers have developed a tiny, ceramic-based lithium-ion battery that can operate at extreme temperatures and power devices such as wearable electronics. Photo: Shutterstock
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Study shows 4,000-year battle of Eastern and Western genes in China’s heartland

Wars and trade saw human genes from East and West fuse as over a million Han dynasty immigrants moved to Ningxia, genomics research reveals.

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Medicine

China closing in but US leads in biotech quality and commercial reach: survey

The Cure survey said China leads ⁠in clinical development and supply chain, and rated US funding cuts a bigger threat than China competition.

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In China, some researchers are attending academic conferences that do not exist

Complaints growing about a ‘grey industry’ catering to the need for published papers and attendance at specialist events.

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Increasing numbers of universities and researchers are complaining about bogus conferences that are catching out the unwary in China’s academic circles. Photo: Shutterstock
Increasing numbers of universities and researchers are complaining about bogus conferences that are catching out the unwary in China’s academic circles. Photo: Shutterstock
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Cancer-on-a-chip pioneer Chen Weiqiang returns to China from New York University

Award-winning biomedical engineering professor leaves United States to join Nanjing University’s school of biomedical engineering.

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China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes

Recently discovered space weather event ‘appears as a massive, spinning aurora near Earth’s magnetic poles’, say researchers.

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China puts world’s first smart squid fishing robot to the test

The machine, which is in sea trials aboard the Song Hang research ship, is designed to mimic human movements and improve efficiency.

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The squid fishing machine is undergoing sea trials on the Song Hang scientific research vessel. Photo: Shanghai Ocean University
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Horses originated in America and reached Europe via China, fossil DNA reveals

Believed to be restricted to northeastern China, genomic analysis shows the Dalian horse’s range extended to southern Siberia and Yakutia.

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Once dismissed as a local oddity in northeastern China, the Dalian horse carried a distinctive American ancestry and passed it on to ancient horse populations in Siberia, according to researchers. Photo: sciencenet.cn
Once dismissed as a local oddity in northeastern China, the Dalian horse carried a distinctive American ancestry and passed it on to ancient horse populations in Siberia, according to researchers. Photo: sciencenet.cn
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Could China make a sea-skimming hypersonic missile a real nightmare for the US?

The country’s top science institute is launching a research programme into the technology that might one day underpin such a weapon.

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The Chinese scientists hoping to use a space solar plant to power the world

The team at Xidian University can zap power 100 metres through the air. But their dream is to send their hardware into orbit.

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Chinese scientists create record-smashing brain implant electrode array

Breakthrough recorded neural activity with high clarity and remained safely functional for 18 months without a drop in performance.

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In animal trials, a new flexible brain implant successfully recorded neural activity with unprecedented long-term clarity and remained safely functional inside the body for 18 months. Photo: Shutterstock
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