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Chinese researchers are scattered across universities and research institutes worldwide, while articles by scientists from China’s top research institutes are appearing more frequently in top journals. Photo: Shutterstock

Are China’s researchers now dominating the world’s top science journals?

Chinese researchers are gaining or leading in many influential publications, but quantity may not reflect academic quality, expert says.

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China’s energy weapon fires thousands of pulses in tests and survives: study

14 Jan 2025 - 4:31PM

US-China tech war

Chinese boss in American Factory approved to launch university

13 Jan 2025 - 8:00PM

Chinese rice tastes better than it did 16 years ago, research team finds

Rice grown in China also has better texture now, Chinese researchers say in note for Nature after article flags climate change impact.

13 Jan 2025 - 5:38PM

A Chinese research team has evaluated rice grown in the country based on standards relating to appearance, odour, palatability, taste, and texture when cold. Photo: Shutterstock

China-Asean relations

Cambodia’s China-backed canal on Mekong seen to put ‘fragile ecosystems’ at risk

Chinese and British researchers say Funan Techo canal’s passage through habitats crucial to biodiversity may cause ecological harm and more.

14 Jan 2025 - 4:26PMvideocam

Chinese scientists simulate ‘hunting’ Starlink satellites in orbit

Taking inspiration from whales, Chinese researchers have created their own method for targeting satellite constellations.

12 Jan 2025 - 10:00PM

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Chinese scientists hope advanced laser will open gateway to new discoveries

The Advanced Attosecond Laser Infrastructure will act as a super slow-motion camera capturing the movements of electrons.

12 Jan 2025 - 9:17PM

The Advanced Attosecond Laser Infrastructure (AALI) will operate from two sites, in Dongguan in Guangdong and Xian in Shaanxi, and will generate light pulses lasting billionths of a billionth of a second. Photo: Xinhua

China technology

Shanghai and Beijing unveil plans to boost brain computer interface industry

China’s biggest economic powerhouse seeks to become a ‘global innovation hub’ by developing treatments for blindness and paralysis.

12 Jan 2025 - 6:03PMvideocam

China’s new technology achieves ‘unprecedented’ rare earth production speed

A new method for mining rare earth metals that is better for the environment has been developed by Chinese scientists.

12 Jan 2025 - 10:00AMvideocam

Educated overseas: has it become a curse to China’s young jobseekers?

It used to give them an edge, but now Chinese overseas graduates are finding their degrees could stop them from finding government work.

11 Jan 2025 - 6:01PMvideocam

Chinese graduates with foreign degrees are being excluded by many provinces in a civil service recruitment programme. Photo: AFP

China releases powerful electronic warfare weapon design software – for free

While similar US industrial software can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, a Chinese program has been released at no cost.

11 Jan 2025 - 12:28AMvideocam

Industrial software for designing electronic warfare weapons has been released for free by Chinese researchers. Photo: Shutterstock

China-born gene-editing star scientist Zhang Feng recognised with top US prize

CRISPR-Cas9 pioneer presented with National Medal of Technology and Innovation in White House awards ceremony.

10 Jan 2025 - 1:02PM

China plans to build ‘Three Gorges dam in space’ to harness solar power

Chinese rocket scientist reveals blueprint for ‘incredible project’ to build solar power station in space using super heavy rockets.

9 Jan 2025 - 11:45PMvideocam

China’s Mars mission leaves US for space dust with Nasa at least 4 years behind

Samples collected by Perseverance rover not expected until at least 2035, four years behind Tianwen-3’s ‘grab-and-go’ timetable.

9 Jan 2025 - 9:16PMvideocam

The US space agency has revised its timeline to retrieve samples from Mars, putting it further behind Chinese plans to bring Martian rocks to Earth by 2031. Photo: Shutterstock

Chinese doctors surprised by reports of HMPV surge, say flu is a bigger problem

International media reports have said hospitals are being ‘overwhelmed’ by cases, but medical staff say that is not the case.

9 Jan 2025 - 11:59AMvideocam

A baby waits to be seen by medical staff at a hospital in Hangzhou in eastern China. Medical staff say cases of flu are far more common this winter. Photo: AFP

New discoveries raise China’s lithium reserves to second largest in the world

Recent finds, including a massive deposit in Tibet, will help meet demand for metal, which is key for EV batteries and other technologies.

8 Jan 2025 - 11:48PM

Biomathematician Hu Yijuan is among Chinese scientists in continuing US exodus

The renowned biostatistician has left Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia for a full-time post with her prestigious alma mater in Beijing.

8 Jan 2025 - 10:15PMvideocam

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Sudden death of top Chinese military drone scientist shocks industry

Drone expert and start-up founder Zhang Daibing, whose company developed unmanned firefighting tech, is dead at age 47.

8 Jan 2025 - 7:01PM

An obituary has confirmed the death of top drone scientist Zhang Daibing, who led or took part in more than 20 national, military, and government research projects. Photo: Weibo/ 徐上峰X

China’s ancient tiny cat fossil could belong to the smallest feline ever found

The palm-sized animal was uncovered in Hualongdong cave, where scientists are studying the humans who lived there 30,000 years ago.

7 Jan 2025 - 10:24PM

‘Gift from heaven’: China astronauts develop super niobium alloy for aerospace

An experiment conducted in space has helped Chinese scientists do the impossible – and it could revolutionise aerospace technology.

9 Jan 2025 - 2:37AMvideocam

Chinese scientists build the most precise timing machine for electronic warfare

Researchers have created an atomic clock that can be taken into war zones, and it could change the future of military combat.

7 Jan 2025 - 9:00AM

The future of warfare could be completely changed after Chinese scientists built an atomic clock that can be transported into war zones. Photo: Reuters

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