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Latest news on research and breakthroughs by Chinese scientists, as the country ramps up investment in science and innovation as part of its ambitions to become a world-leading power by 2035, and other developments worldwide.
LATEST China Science NEWS

Chinese farmer’s forest of cameras fails to bear fruit in compensation bid

Images of the cameras set tounges wagging online. Photo: Handout

China leads in GPS-style, reconnaissance and anti-satellite abilities, US report says

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Shenzhou-21 astronaut Wu Fei performs extravehicular activities outside China’s orbiting space station in April. Photo: Xinhua

China fires up world’s biggest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion project

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The team behind the superconducting magnet project celebrate the success of their tests on Saturday, capping years of work. Photo: Xinhua

‘Unhealthy environment’: Arctic researcher Li Xueke leaves the US for Hong Kong

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Li Xueke says her new base in Hong Kong will provide ample opportunities for climate research and sustainable energy. Photo: Handout

Raptor discovery in Argentina points to prehistoric links with China

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Kank australis was a carnivorous dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived around 70 million years ago. Illustration: Gabriel Diaz Yanten
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Shenzhou-21 astronaut Wu Fei performs extravehicular activities outside China’s orbiting space station in April. Photo: Xinhua
United States

China leads in GPS-style, reconnaissance and anti-satellite abilities, US report says

China is closing the space innovation gap with the United States and could take the lead if Washington doesn’t act, think tank warns.

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Mainland China

China fires up world’s biggest superconducting magnet for nuclear fusion project

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United States

‘Unhealthy environment’: Arctic researcher Li Xueke leaves the US for Hong Kong

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Argentina

Raptor discovery in Argentina points to prehistoric links with China

Unearthed on opposite sides of the world, fossils of Kank australis and velociraptors sport matching claws, revealing evolutionary ties.

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Kank australis was a carnivorous dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived around 70 million years ago. Illustration: Gabriel Diaz Yanten
East China Sea

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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Mainland China

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

Home-grown navigation system will allow for real-time tracking of containers, improving security and safety on vital transport route.

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Switzerland

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

Chinese innovation boosts wireless data rates, reduces dead zones and can track people and objects, even underground.

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Chinese scientists have developed technology designed for 6G and future networks, which can reduce dead zones and boost wireless data rates up to 400 Mbps. Photo: Getty
United Nations

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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Artificial intelligence

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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Brazil

Scientists seek clues to longevity from 3 Brazilian sisters over 100

The oldest living trio of siblings in the world could provide clues into the role played by genetic versus lifestyle factors.

(From left) Zoraide de Deus Mota, Zulina de Deus Nunes and Levita de Deus Nunes, recognised as the world’s oldest living trio of sisters, are interviewed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
Xinjiang

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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Two major flood events have occurred along the margins of the Taklamakan Desert in northwestern China since the beginning of June. Photo: CCTV
Mainland China

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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United States

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.

South China Sea

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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The tower is designed to collect more detailed data about atmospheric conditions. Photo: Handout
United States

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
Mainland China

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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Central Asia

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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Pakistan

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
Mainland China

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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Artificial intelligence

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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Shanghai

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
United States

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
Chinese culture

As I see it | What the I Ching is really about

While it may depart from scientific axioms, readers can glean much about their circumstances by consulting the Book of Changes.

Mainland China

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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United States

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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The technical hurdles and financial costs of beaming electricity from space to Earth are staggering, the project's chief says. Credit: Xidian University
Tokyo

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
Archaeology and palaeontology

Our ancient enemy: scientists discover oldest-known plague outbreak

Ancient DNA from Siberian burials reveals prehistoric outbreaks struck hunter-gatherers long before the Black Death.

Mainland China

China mulls controlling world’s largest high-speed rail network from space

Study shows low-orbit satellites might avoid another Wenzhou disaster but reveals how hackers could deliberately crash speeding trains.

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