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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.
1 May 2025 - 11:19PM
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Former Harvard professor convicted over China ties joins Tsinghua University
1 May 2025 - 8:30PM
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Chinese AI scientists may threaten US tech dominance, think tank says
30 Apr 2025 - 9:43PM
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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.
30 Apr 2025 - 3:13PM
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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
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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.
30 Apr 2025 - 6:38PM
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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.
30 Apr 2025 - 9:34AM
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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.
30 Apr 2025 - 5:32AM
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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
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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.
29 Apr 2025 - 9:15PM
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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.
30 Apr 2025 - 9:38AM
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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.
29 Apr 2025 - 2:00PM
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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.
29 Apr 2025 - 9:46AM
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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.
29 Apr 2025 - 9:37AM
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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.
28 Apr 2025 - 10:04PM
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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.
28 Apr 2025 - 2:16PM
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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.
27 Apr 2025 - 8:00PM
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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.
27 Apr 2025 - 2:54PM
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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.
26 Apr 2025 - 8:00PM
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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.
26 Apr 2025 - 10:12AM
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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
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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.
25 Apr 2025 - 8:21PM
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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.
25 Apr 2025 - 12:35PM
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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.
25 Apr 2025 - 12:06AM
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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.
24 Apr 2025 - 10:57PM
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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
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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.
25 Apr 2025 - 3:11PM
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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.
24 Apr 2025 - 6:30PM
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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.
24 Apr 2025 - 10:00AM
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