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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

China’s ‘electric eel’ sensor lets robots feel an object without touching it

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Chinese scientists have mimicked the natural radar of electric eels. Image: Zhang Weiqiang

China’s 1MW perovskite solar farm beats silicon system in industrial-scale test

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China is by far the solar industry’s biggest player, accounting for about 80 per cent of the world’s manufacturing capacity and dominating the supply chain for key components. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese sensor feat may help smart watch detect submarine 500 metres deep

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Chinese scientists have created a Hall‑effect magnetic sensor so sensitive that it could detect a submarine from 500 metres away. Photo: Shutterstock

China, Brazil to launch 24/7 disaster early warning satellite for South America

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Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River amid a drought in Humaita, Amazonas state. Brazil has teamed up with China to create a geostationary satellite that can predict extreme weather events. Photo: AP

Miles ahead: China team boosts atom entanglement distance record fourfold

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Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team say their experiment provides a test bed for studying quantum network applications beyond the metropolitan scale. Photo: Shutterstock
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Chinese scientists have mimicked the natural radar of electric eels. Image: Zhang Weiqiang
Mainland China

China’s ‘electric eel’ sensor lets robots feel an object without touching it

The robot’s fluoropolymer-coated sensor acts like a battery to create an electric field that can detect metal, plastics, glass and wood.

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China’s 1MW perovskite solar farm beats silicon system in industrial-scale test

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Mainland China

Chinese sensor feat may help smart watch detect submarine 500 metres deep

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Brazil

China, Brazil to launch 24/7 disaster early warning satellite for South America

The project will place Brazil among a small number of countries capable of developing and operating geostationary satellites.

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Residents look out at the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River amid a drought in Humaita, Amazonas state. Brazil has teamed up with China to create a geostationary satellite that can predict extreme weather events. Photo: AP
Mainland China

Miles ahead: China team boosts atom entanglement distance record fourfold

The breakthrough is expected to provide a foundation for scalable quantum communications, computing and networked sensing.

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United States

US organ donation organisation’s shutdown invokes Chinese students’ worst fears

Network for Hope, which assists millions of American donor recipients, is accused of harvesting organs from living patients.

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China-Singapore relations

In Focus | Why Singapore scholarships are drawing China’s brightest STEM talent

City state’s scholarships for students from China form an early-stage talent pipeline into its highly skilled workforce, experts say.

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Illustration: Quoc Huy Truong
Mainland China

Chinese missile AI tracks F-22, F-35-like heat signatures with over 90% accuracy

Lightweight, low-cost, heat-seeking missiles could be used to identify stealth fighters in future air combat with strong accuracy.

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Mainland China

Chinese ‘yeast factory’ boosts cancer drug production by 1,000 times

Turning point comes from cross-disciplinary collaboration, including across plant biochemistry, synthetic biology and protein engineering.

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Indonesia

Nearly 200-country study shows China’s belt and road cuts debt and corruption

Data analysis spanning more than 20 years across 197 countries and regions challenges ‘debt trap diplomacy’ narrative.

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According to the study, better connectivity can reduce pressure from poverty, unemployment and inequality, particularly in developing countries. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

In Focus | Singapore and South Korea eye science opportunity as US-China ties shatter

New research hubs are emerging in other countries in response to Washington’s restrictions – but there are likely to be few winners overall.

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Iran

China is sending scientists to Iran for rare earth ‘exploration and processing’

Chinese and Iranian natural science foundations include the strategically sensitive metals in this year’s joint workshop programme.

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SCMP Highlights

China’s glueball ‘triumph’; SpaceX rocket debris on video: 7 science highlights

From China’s plan against desertification to nuking a ‘doomsday asteroid’, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

Food and agriculture

Fruit fusion: how will the market react to China’s lychee-longan creation?

Described as tender and crisp, Cuimi delivers about double the yield compared with Shixia longan, say developers.

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Chinese scientists have crossed a lychee with a longan, producing a hybrid fruit called Cuimi that breaks long-standing reproductive barriers between plant genera for the first time. Photo: Guangzhou Daily
Environment

Beijing’s tree die-off shows hidden risks of rapid underground water recovery

Thousands of trees die in Jinzhandian Park, a lush flood-storage wetland, amid exceptionally wet and rainy summer.

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In Jinzhandian Park wetland, thousands of trees have reportedly died across four wooded areas near the water. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

China’s hypersonic weapons can be guided by the stars if GPS fails: report

Guangdong researchers build prototype star sensor after developing a way to accurately predict how starlight bends at extreme speeds.

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United States

China says US tried to buy its super magnet that has ‘40% higher’ performance

America’s Brookhaven lab once ‘monopolised’ the specialist technology, but China says it is now ’winning’ in that field.

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Mainland China

Tougher than armour, hard as diamond: China’s unbreakable crystal breakthrough

Scientists use carbon nanotubes to build an internal support structure that overcomes the brittle glasslike nature of diamonds.

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A team of researchers in China has found a way to make the world’s hardest substance tougher without sacrificing any of its hardness. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

2,300-year-old wine found near Great Wall ruin reveals ancient brewing secrets

Archaeologists uncover 3.7 litres of well-preserved liquid in a Qin cemetery, confirming the use of millet-based brewing near the frontier.

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Mainland China

Chinese researchers use microbubbles to shrink aggressive liver tumours: paper

Cancer patients who received the experimental treatment in combination with standard therapies saw improvement, study finds.

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Mainland China

China enables free access to DNA-screening AI tool to help fight rare diseases

The team hopes the open-source AI framework will help decode rare diseases and provide equitable access to precision medicine.

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A technician works at a genetic testing laboratory of BGI, formerly known as Beijing Genomics Institute, in Kunming, Yunnan province. Photo: China Out/Reuters
Mainland China

China using AI facial recognition to track fish in Tibet’s largest river

Round-the-clock tracking system helps to identify and monitor species travelling through a dam fishway on the Yarlung Tsangpo River.

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China is using AI to identify and track fish populations travelling through a fishway at Zangmu Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. Photo: China Out/AFP
Archaeology and palaeontology

Why were there no teeny-tiny dinosaurs like we have with mammals and birds?

New research investigates why there were never any dinosaurs the size of, say, a mouse, and it seems like mammals could be to blame.

United States

US and Israeli physicists hail China’s glueball discovery as a ‘triumph’

Global experts praise team for solving 50-year-old puzzle, while Chinese social media buzzes with Nobel Prize predictions.

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Brazil

What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force

After 15 years of research, scientists discover definitive evidence of glueballs using the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II.

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The Beijing Spectrometer III of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II has helped prove the existence of “glueballs”. Photo: Institute of High Energy Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mainland China

China’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs: scientists

Custom-designed machines could identify hazards on the moon and help astronauts collect rock samples, source water ice, researchers say.

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Chinese researchers have drawn up blueprints that could see robot dogs helping astronauts scout hazards, collect rock samples and undertake detailed scientific work. Photo: CCTV
Mainland China

Chinese scientists find some Yangtze flood controls may do more harm than good

By compressing rivers and stripping away natural defences, human engineering may be worsening flood impacts, prompting a global rethink.

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Mainland China

Chinese breakthrough paves way for production of graphene-based quantum chips

Researchers overcome instability problem of a rare form of the material long prized for its remarkable properties.

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