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Exclusive | Asian scientists are looking to South Korea as it becomes harder to stay in the US

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Yoo Ji-beom, president of Sungkyunkwan University, says tech rivalry and global talent mobility are “reshaping the knowledge ecosystem”. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Biomedicine | How China uses gut microbes to treat a range of diseases

How China uses gut microbes to treat a range of diseases

China tests powerful AI that could one day be used on submarines

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Submersible pilot Tang Jialing (right) checks the manned deep-sea submersible Jiaolong on October 15. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese astronomers find planets that somehow avoided death by red giant stars

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An artist’s impression of an ageing star swallowing nearby planets. Image: Xinhua

In China gene-editing trial, 2 children improved and 1 died

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The study involved HG302, an investigational CRISPR-based gene-editing therapy designed to restore the expression of dystrophin in people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Photo: Shutterstock
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Yoo Ji-beom, president of Sungkyunkwan University, says tech rivalry and global talent mobility are “reshaping the knowledge ecosystem”. Photo: Jonathan Wong
SCMP Exclusives

Exclusive | Asian scientists are looking to South Korea as it becomes harder to stay in the US

Seoul university says it’s luring researchers in energy, quantum materials and biomedicine while still working with US and Chinese partners.

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Biomedicine: Science

Biomedicine | How China uses gut microbes to treat a range of diseases

Mainland China

China tests powerful AI that could one day be used on submarines

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United States

Chinese astronomers find planets that somehow avoided death by red giant stars

Study suggests the long-term fate of the solar system, including Earth, ‘may be far more complicated than predicted’, according to scientist.

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An artist’s impression of an ageing star swallowing nearby planets. Image: Xinhua
Mainland China

In China gene-editing trial, 2 children improved and 1 died

Recent study reveals a harsh reality: promising experimental treatments still force parents to gamble with their children’s lives.

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Shanghai

China formally launches project to build aircraft carrier-sized ‘science island’

Due for completion by 2030, the semi-submersible twin-hull platform is the world’s first mobile, self-sustaining artificial island.

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China’s battery factories could be sitting right on top of vast lithium deposits

Study identifies areas where volcanoes may have deposited the critical mineral and they overlap with the Chinese power unit heartland.

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China’s thousands of lithium-ion battery manufacturers mainly rely on imported lithium. Photo: Shutterstock
Shanghai

China trial shows gum tissue stem cells help 55% of lifetime diabetes patients

Song Guo Zheng, who was imprisoned in the US during Trump’s China Initiative, continues his research with promising early clinical results.

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Mainland China

Chinese scientists create powerful catalyst to turn air on Mars into rocket fuel

Study finds that producing methanol on the red planet from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere ‘is technically feasible to a certain extent’.

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Greenland

Why China’s new estimate on Greenland ice loss speed is 55% lower than America’s

Disclosure based on new model aims to refine elevation monitoring to provide a high-resolution map of exactly where the loss is happening.

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Visitors look out at melting icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland, in July 2024. Photo: Getty Images
Artificial intelligence

Open Questions | Alibaba Cloud founder on how AI can unlock human potential

Wang Jian says artificial intelligence allows people to write software without coding skills and contribute to scientific discoveries without research training.

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Illustration: Henry Wong
Mainland China

Tibetan river hosting world’s biggest dam is facing increasing flood risk: study

Researchers create a hydrological history using tree rings and data to project future run-off and flood risk in the Yarlung Tsangpo River.

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Mainland China

China’s J-20 stealth jet designers plan to put powerful radar into aircraft wing

Military aircraft designers propose a wing-mounted early-warning radar to expand coverage during air combat.

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Mainland China

China carries out in-depth investigation of Turkey’s largest rare earth deposit

New study sheds light on how rare earth elements built up in carbonatite-related formations at the Kizilcaoren deposit.

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China’s Bayan Obo holds the world’s largest rare earth element deposit. Photo: Reuters
United States

Rocket debris hitting US homeland is ‘embarrassing’ for China, says astronomer

Farmer’s find looks like a match for a fuel cap from LandSpace’s Zhuque-2E and could trigger UN convention, according to expert.

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The mystery object is likely to be a fragment from a Chinese satellite rocket, space experts say. Photo: Handout
Russia

Good to see you after all this time. Scientists finally put a face to Denisovans

Scientists use fossil fragments found in northern China to reconstruct the features of the ancient hominids.

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Mainland China

China’s head transplant advocate completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia

In Moscow, joint Chinese and Russian team used groundbreaking tissue fusion technique on paralysed patient, according to the surgeon.

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Chinese astronomers find real 3-body system. It is not what Liu Cixin thinks

In a case of life imitating art, Chinese researchers have discovered an ‘extremely rare’ three-star system that is not science fiction.

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Chinese scientists have discovered a new form of pulsar emissions, called dwarf pulses, using the country’s 500 metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST. Photo: Xinhua
Shanghai

Could China’s 100-channel detector enable broadband quantum internet?

New design shatters quantum network bottleneck, creating ‘robust and scalable infrastructure’ for large-scale applications, scientists say.

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United States

Chinese mathematician Sun Zhiwei proposes 1,000 problems to challenge AI

Professor says AI is a capable assistant, but true breakthroughs rely on curiosity and asking original questions.

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SCMP Highlights

‘Gold factory’ relic, Chinese plant cuts 60% energy use: 7 science highlights

From an artificial pancreas to a cancer trial with 84 per cent efficacy, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

The five-telescope HESS array in Namibia. Photo: Klepser/Wikimedia Commons
Mainland China

China’s Terracotta Army may have been mainly built by women and children: study

Qin dynasty artisans included women and children assigned to pottery crafting, legal records and physical evidence show.

Excavations have uncovered more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors, bronze chariots, stone armour and other artefacts across three pits. The site was added to the Unesco World Heritage list in 1987. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

China builds the world’s smallest wearable brain monitor with a cortex-wide view

The Airscope offers a window on the simultaneous activity of thousands of individual neurons in untethered lab animals.

Brazil

Brazil’s family farming backbone embraces Chinese AI to reverse vital sector’s decline

Five-year cooperation agreement to drive access to affordable tech for Brazilian farmers by combining skills from both countries.

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Mainland China

Chinese scientists find neurons may act as minicomputers to help decision-making

Researchers find evidence that suggests neural activity can guide the way the brain adapts to different sensory experiences.

Neuronal network with electrical activity of neuron cells 3D rendering illustration. Neuroscience, neurology, nervous system and impulse, brain activity, microbiology concepts. Illustration: Shutterstock
Japan

China’s new 0.1-nanometre electron microscope ready to challenge US and Japan

Model marks shift from R&D to commercialisation and aligns with country’s effort to cut reliance on imported tech.

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Developed by Hefei-based manufacturer CIQTEK, the microscope features a point resolution of 0.25 nanometres and an information limit of 0.1nm. Photo: CIQTEK
Mainland China

Cell publisher investigates editor accused of soliciting bribes from China

Probe triggered by social media post in which prominent biologist singled out Chinese-born editor-in-chief of medical journal Cancer Cell.

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Mainland China

Chinese find doughnut-like topology at tipping points, break physics convention

Study bridges critical phenomena and topology, opening new pathways for fundamental science research.

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