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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.
Alex Lamb, a distinguished AI researcher, has confirmed he will join Tsinghua University in autumn. Photo: Handout
AI: Geopolitics

Senior AI scientist Alex Lamb once shrugged off China. Now he’s joining Tsinghua

Lamb has trained under a Turing Award winner and worked at top companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s DeepMind.

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China is developing an ‘Underwater BeiDou’ network for navigation and tracking

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Mainland China

China defies ASML prediction with EUV breakthrough in advanced chip production

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China technology

China’s high-power microwave gun fires 10,000 shots in test, proving vacuum tech

Successful trials of gun that emits beams capable of attacking drones, missiles and more signal breakthrough in directed-energy weaponry.

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Researchers at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology built the technology and conducted the trials that have been documented in a peer-reviewed study. Photo: SCMP
Chinese history

A fiery conquest in 112BC may have led to decline of the Chinese swamp cypress

Han military campaign toppled the rebel Nanyue kingdom but also decimated vast stands of cypress, study finds.

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Aerospace: Policy

China plans space traffic management system amid commercial satellite boom

National space body says it needs to keep space ‘sustainable’ as projections show number of satellites in low Earth orbit could hit 100,000.

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How the list of China-born leaders in global science is steadily growing

More Chinese scientists are taking on prestigious leadership roles at US academic societies.

China-born scientists are being recognised globally as more take up leadership roles in US academic organisations. Photo: Donghua University

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?

The race is on to commercialise technology that could overcome China’s dominance of the supply of critical minerals.

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Japan

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

Shang will join Westlake University, where he will establish a new laboratory focused on sustainable catalysis and functional molecules.

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Professor Shang Rui, a chemistry professor at the University of Tokyo, will take up a position at Westlake University in China this year. Photo: Handout

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.

Cave explorers have discovered a rich subterranean world at a site in southwest China. Photo: Zhao Jieyu

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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Google

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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Illustration: Henry Wong

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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As early research jobs dwindle in the US due to funding cuts and hiring freezes, a new study has found in China, PhD graduates outnumber postdoctoral job vacancies by five to one. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

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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SCMP

Opinion | ‘Science fiction’ to reality: charting an unexplored side of China’s rapid rise

In its 3 years, the Post’s dedicated science team has reported on China’s frontier research, goals, innovators and technological leaps.

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Hong Kong

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 satellite maker Chang Guang Satellite Technology has launched 219 satellites. Photo: Handout

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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