Inspired by the brain, Tsinghua University team says their Tianmouc chip analyses visual information along two pathways: one for cognition, one for rapid response.
This is ‘the largest quantum simulation or computation performed to date in a trapped-ion system’, comments one reviewer on study published in Nature.
Tianqi constellation to comprise 38 small satellites for data connectivity via smart devices, with expansion expected to include military applications, says developer and operator Guodian Gaoke.
Three-year plan puts artificial intelligence at the centre of Beijing’s ambitions to achieve hi-tech self-reliance and catch up with the US.
Chinese researchers complete excursion across Atlantic and Indian oceans, where they collected environmental data, rock samples and marine life. But US analysts are concerned China’s ocean exploration will give it an edge in mining and intelligence.
The EV maker has unveiled a new version of its plug-in hybrid technology that it hopes will encourage more widespread adoption of electric cars in China, ratcheting up pressure on traditional carmakers like VW and General Motors.
Shenzhou-18’s Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu installed protection shields and inspected equipment and facilities in 8½-hour extravehicular activity, says CMSA.
Seven days after the operation, Chinese researchers say the 71-year-old’s organ function has returned to normal and he is walking freely.
Images of new hi-tech tank circulating on social media hint at move from traditional tank-on-tank combat to a more comprehensive warfare approach.
PFAS, widely used due to resistance to oil, water and heat, has been restricted or banned around the world but use of substitutes is hard to track.
The China-born MIT researcher, hailed as one of the most innovative life scientists in the world, talked about his work to a packed lecture hall.
A breakthrough cell therapy in Shanghai is reported to have cured a man’s diabetes, giving hope to other sufferers.
Only 1 per cent of large-cap Hong Kong-listed firms in the MSCI AC Asia-Pacific IMI index have set greenhouse gas reduction targets considered ‘fully’ credible, less than the regional average.
Game development competition for primary students signals a shift in how tech education is reaching China’s vast rural regions.
China’s domestically developed Lansi pig, a new breed with several advantages over Western imports, has received commercial approval – and could be an asset in the country’s efforts to self-source its livestock.
A Harvard University professor, famed for his NAD anti-ageing therapy, has resigned from a prominent scientific academy.
Mission scientist Pei Zhaoyu struggles to form a sentence during a live broadcast, sending patriotic doubters of the 1969 moonwalk into overdrive.
A long-theorised but never-seen-before particle known as a glueball may have just been discovered by physicists.
‘Harbin Institute of Technology is a talent base for China’s nuclear industry,’ according to Putin.
Improvements in treatment method deliver cancer-killing drugs to tumour cells while avoiding healthy tissue.
Fully autonomous system ‘can perform high-quality ultrasound, close to manual scans obtained by clinicians’, team says in Nature Communications paper.