Peer-reviewed paper recommends tunnelling under three artificial islands in the disputed Spratly chain to ease crowding.

Thein Swee Lay and Stuart Orkin received the Shaw Prize for Life Sciences and Medicine for research into treatment for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassaemia.

Scientists use nanoparticles to supercharge the mechanical properties of aluminium alloys.

Chinese satnav industry hits US$74 billion output, has 20,000 market entities and employs nearly 1 million people: report.

As the world continues to deal with Covid-19, scientists are already getting ready to face the next deadly pathogen.

It is an indisputable fact that there’s nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day. Now it can be backed up with science.

Breakthrough will help researchers better understand the origin and evolution of magnetism in the universe.

Yao Yang from Peking University says a developed, capitalist market and openness to immigrants helped the United States lead the way over the past century.

As tech war heats up, a crucial quantum computing component can now be made in China, it has been announced.

Honour for Pan Jianwei, a leading physicist who built the world’s first quantum satellite, comes shortly after US ‘Entities List’ targets ‘almost all of China’s core strength’ in quantum information research.

Researchers create entanglement networks in Hefei, Boston and Delft in separate studies that bring uncrackable encryption closer to reality.

Device will co-orbit with the Tiangong space station and, unlike Nasa’s planned Roman telescope, could easily be accessed by astronauts for repair.

Researchers say reduced aerosol emissions in China have led to rising sea temperatures and extreme weather in Northeast Pacific, from Alaska to California, affecting biodiversity and causing toxic algae blooms and drought.

Winged projectile achieves Mach 5, reaching altitude of 15km in test but was sent off course by rotation speeds, investigation shows.

Chinese researchers advance quantum simulation technology with clear and flexible system that ‘deserves to be included in textbooks’.

Controversy around European science honours leads to questions over legitimacy of some academic accolades.

Researchers developed a technique that uses a low-cost material – lithium tantalate – that is already being used to make smartphone components.

While many people just enjoyed the spectacle caused by ‘strongest aurora in 20 years’, forecasters warned that powerful geomagnetic storms could disrupt communications and navigation.

The edit, which helps the crop resist a common fungal infection, was approved within an unusually short period.

Readers discuss nurturing the human capacity for learning, embracing the technology and using it ethically and responsibly.

Researchers are creating an AI system that can explain its decisions, amid the intense US-China AI arms race.

The model overcomes existing forecasting challenges, as it does not need historical records to make predictions.

Developer CASC said initial satellite in the ambitious broadband constellation was sent 20,000km above the Earth where it will test core technologies.

Scientists are studying China’s Meihua Fortress to see how it managed to withstand repeated attacks over centuries.

Experiment opens ‘intriguing pathways’ for future research, with possible implications for computing or communications.

Celebrated mathematician Yau Shing-Tung says the country’s mathematics research is not yet at the level of the US in the 1940s.

Researchers in China and the US have pinpointed a gene defect that opens an interspecies door.

A top physicist is ‘confident’ Chinese scientists can build the world’s largest collider, as debate of the project continues.

‘Aqueous batteries with high energy density are possible, offering a development option for grid-scale energy storage, and even electric vehicles’: researchers.