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.
Researchers are creating an AI system that can explain its decisions, amid the intense US-China AI arms race.
US move to put 22 of China’s major quantum research bodies on trade blacklist could have major repercussions for the science in the country, physicists tell the Post.
The model overcomes existing forecasting challenges, as it does not need historical records to make predictions.
A project to mine gallium in a national forest would help reduce US reliance on China but it faces local opposition from conservationists.
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.
Study finds anti-ageing component that can be extracted from bodily fluids to extend life of laboratory mice.
Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for scientific study.