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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 to harness nation’s resources to AI self-reliance ambitions

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China is seeking to overtake the United States in AI to become a world leader in a field seen as critical to moving the country up the industrial value chain. Photo: CCTV

Why does Chinese entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu shun jobseekers educated overseas?

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Dong Mingzhu (left), with President Xi Jinping at Gree’s moulding plant back in 2018, has divided opinion with her latest comments about overseas educated jobseekers. Photo: Xinhua

China-born scientist forged a rare-earth-free magnet. Will it help the West?

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Jian-Ping Wang is a world-renowned expert in the field of magnetics. He holds 65 patents and has co-founded three start-up companies. Photo: University of Minnesota

China’s stealth jet breakthrough, Thai ranger fired over slur: 7 highlights

China’s sixth-generation stealth fighter jet, unofficially called the J-36, which made its first appearance in December. Photo: X / 醉美武功

US scientists given access to moon rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-5 probe

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The Chang’e-5 lunar probe brought samples back to Earth in 2020. Photo: Reuters
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China cancels largest US pork order in 5 years, dealing blow to American farmers

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A man has quit a top university in China, and declined a PhD offer in the US to sell snacks from a street stall. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin

Diplomacy

Again, no – China and the US are not in tariff talks, Chinese embassy says

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An elderly Chinese couple have sparked controversy after the woman gave birth at the age of 67 and they are now raising their daughter themselves. Photo: Douyin

Military

China’s critical minerals dominance threatens US military supply chain: report

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Dong Mingzhu (left), with President Xi Jinping at Gree’s moulding plant back in 2018, has divided opinion with her latest comments about overseas educated jobseekers. Photo: Xinhua

Why does Chinese entrepreneur Dong Mingzhu shun jobseekers educated overseas?

Chinese businesswoman divides opinion by saying her company won’t hire overseas-educated executives due to security concerns.

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China-born scientist forged a rare-earth-free magnet. Will it help the West?

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Japan

Award-winning chemist Shang Rui will leave Japan to start a lab in China

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China launches Shenzhou-20 spacecraft to install space debris defence devices

On board Tiangong space station, crew trio will conduct cutting-edge experiments on tissue regeneration, human-machine collaboration systems.

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China launched the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft on Thursday afternoon with dozens of space experiments on board to be carried out over the next six months. Photo: Xinhua

China’s new journal publishing benchmarks set to boost scientific soft power

Beijing aims to assert voice in global academic discourse by overhauling grading system that covers thousands of Chinese scientific journals.

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Eat, prey, eat: fossil find in China reveals unusual dinosaur-mammal food chain

Fossilised remains of newly identified dinosaur species and mammal suggest they were both predator and quarry to each other.

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China unveils drone-mounted quantum device for submarine detection in South China Sea

Chinese scientists’ breakthrough in magnetic detection technology could give China the edge in submarine warfare amid Sino-US tension.

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Chinese scientists have revealed a breakthrough in magnetic detection technology that could eliminate ‘blind zones’ in the South China Sea, giving the China the edge in submarine warfare. Photo: Handout

A Chinese cave expert found something extraordinary. He fears it will be wrecked

Experts say newly found karst cave has sediment ‘gene pool’ that hasn’t been seen before, but it needs to be protected before it’s too late.

China on pace to land astronauts on moon by 2030, space agency says

Rocket, crew carrier and lander pass key early hurdles with testing ‘progressing smoothly’, as US Artemis programme navigates delays.

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Technology

Academic misconduct, grant fraud threaten China’s innovation push: state media

Communist Party mouthpiece says there must be greater penalties for violations that could ‘undermine the country’s strategic goals’.

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An article in a Communist Party outlet asserts that academic dishonesty, such as grant fraud and falsifying data, in China can only effectively be deterred by raising penalties. Photo: Shutterstock
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China cracks quantum code barrier. For how long will our data be safe?

By setting a new benchmark in quantum cryptology, Chinese researchers may have found new path for encryption research.

Chinese researchers have set a new benchmark for applying quantum computing to cryptography, and introduced a potential new encryption methodology. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Mainland China

China finds way to land its stealth jet on aircraft carriers. How does it work?

Chengdu engineers achieve uncanny precision in extreme weather with system that shares control with pilot, study said.

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Medicine

Can this study from Chinese, French scientists help unlock secrets of the mind?

Findings could help illuminate role of brain region in cognitive functions, such as memory integration and abstract thinking: paper.

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Chinese universities are dominating global research on chips, US report says

While institutions from China take up most places on top 10 rankings for published papers and citations, there are none from the US.

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5 jobs for a jobseeker: in China, PhD may have far more opportunities than in US

As the Trump administration slashes research funding and US universities impose hiring freezes, postdoc job vacancies in China are booming.

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China tests non-nuclear hydrogen bomb, science paper shows

The weapon generates a white-hot fireball that lasts 15 times longer than TNT’s fleeting flash.

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Will the US hand space leadership to China by pulling Nasa out of Mars race?

Experts contrast Washington’s budget threat to Martian sample return programme and clear goals for Tianwen-3 mission and beyond.

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China’s Tianwen-3 mission to retrieve samples from Mars is expected to leave Earth in 2028. Photo: Shutterstock
Pakistan

China offers high-performance, low-cost satellites to belt and road countries

Breakthrough makes powerful sub-metre Kuanfu 02B the lightest on the market, Chang Guang Satellite Technology says.

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Chinese team’s AI paper paved the way for ChatGPT. Greater glory awaits by 2030

Work on deep residual learning is most-cited since 2000 and may become the top of the all-time list within five years, Nature analysis finds.

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Environment

Major rice producers have worst heavy metal pollution, Chinese scientists warn

India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and other diseases.

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China's space programme

China’s ‘hopeless’ satellites create first Earth-moon navigation network

DRO-L, DRO-A and DRO-B finally form a communication and navigation system spanning from low Earth orbit to distant retrograde orbit.

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Mainland China

Senior scientist Yi Shouliang leaves US Department of Energy for China

Yi leaves the University of Pittsburgh after less than 12 months for new academic role amid escalating China-US tensions.

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Years of the rat: did China’s rodents hitch rides on Zheng He’s Treasure Fleet?

15th century imperial silk paintings hint that explorer’s voyages may have carried some unintended passengers, researchers say.

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China unveils world’s fastest hard drive, redefining rules of data storage

Rice-sized memory device breaks speed barrier once thought impossible, capable of erasing and rewriting data 100,000 times faster than before.

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Mainland China

‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor

Team working on project reportedly achieves milestone by completing fuel reloading while experimental molten salt reactor was running.

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Hong Kong

Chinese scientists use AI to help visually impaired to ‘see’, explore the world

A collaborative research project has developed a lightweight, wearable system that is also easy to use, according to a new study.

Animals

‘So beautiful’: colossal squid caught on camera for first time in the deep sea

The animal, a juvenile, was spotted at a depth of 600 metres; the animals can reach up to 7 metres long when fully grown.

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