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Beijing approves construction of first South China Sea deepwater ‘space station’
Scientists will be able to work for up to a month in the facility that will be anchored 2,000 metres below the surface.
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Far more top-cited US scientists have papers retracted than Chinese peers: paper
12 Feb 2025 - 5:42PM
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Top chip designer leaves US, ‘ghost particle’ detector: 7 science highlights
12 Feb 2025 - 3:00PM
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Chinese GPUs outdo Nvidia chips nearly tenfold in supercomputer task
Innovative parallel computing design using domestic hardware underscores Beijing’s broader strategy to blunt ‘chokepoint’ risks in critical tech.
12 Feb 2025 - 12:21PM
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Nvidia GPUs, considered the gold standard for computing power, have seen a new challenge from Chinese researchers who achieved a performance milestone with domestically developed GPUs. Photo: X
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Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China
Tsinghua University highlights professor who has returned to China to train next generation of chip experts and tackle tech problems.
12 Feb 2025 - 9:00AM
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Artificial intelligence
US declines to sign international declaration on artificial intelligence
Statement by more than 60 nations including China aims to erect guardrails to ensure AI is ‘inclusive, transparent, secure and trustworthy’.
12 Feb 2025 - 7:17PM
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China’s stratospheric airship can detect F-35 fighter from nearly 2,000km: study
Chinese researchers say they found jet’s potential vulnerability in study of simulated combat involving Taiwan.
11 Feb 2025 - 3:23PM
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Chinese researchers say they can detect the US-made F-35 fighter jet from more than 1,800km away via its engine exhaust plume. Photo: US Air Force
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Tibetan tree rings link climate change and fall of major Chinese dynasties
Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals.
11 Feb 2025 - 9:00AM
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China builds ‘planetary defence’ team as concerns grow over 2024 YR4 asteroid
Chinese defence agency recruits space researchers following discovery of large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent chance of striking Earth in 2032.
10 Feb 2025 - 9:50PM
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DeepSeek
Demystifying DeepSeek: 4 burning questions about the AI start-up answered
Is DeepSeek funded by the Chinese government? How does it make money? SCMP editors answer the biggest questions about the company during a live webinar.
11 Feb 2025 - 4:37PM
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China has met most of its 5-year goals. It hasn’t done so well on emissions
Country will struggle to meet targets for energy consumption and carbon emissions reduction, according to Tsinghua University analysis.
10 Feb 2025 - 12:39PM
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The Tsinghua University researchers said China had become a world leader in green energy development. Photo: Xinhua
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Air pollution threat as lung cancer cases in never-smokers on the rise: study
Lung cancer in people who have never smoked is rising, and figures show China is at particular risk of air pollution-related cancer.
10 Feb 2025 - 10:00AM
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China’s tech, quantum visionaries among those who died suddenly
Losses include leading lights in AI, drones, defence, semiconductors and aerospace technology.
9 Feb 2025 - 4:12PM
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China’s super-rich have a new must-have possession: their own university
For China’s billionaires, founding new universities offers a chance to make money – and demonstrate they are ‘politically correct’.
9 Feb 2025 - 2:06PM
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China leading physics research, with US a distant rival, Nature Index shows
Only non-Chinese institutions among top 10 on latest Nature Index are from Europe, while the US debuts at No 13.
8 Feb 2025 - 10:47PM
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Chinese institutions dominate the top 10 in Nature Index’s ranking for high-quality physics. Photo: Shutterstock
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China adds ‘ghost particle’ detector to South China Sea observation network
In the darkness of the ocean depths, Chinese scientists are hoping to solve one of the enduring mysteries of the universe.
8 Feb 2025 - 4:00PM
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From ‘piglet’ to powerhouse: how DeepSeek changed China’s AI narrative
A unique innovation around AI models from a start-up spun out of a hedge fund roiled Western markets and is changing how China sees its role in the industry.
8 Feb 2025 - 11:00AM
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Scientists create most stable metal for precision manufacturing
Chinese and Austrian researchers have developed an alloy with practically zero thermal expansion across a vast temperature range.
7 Feb 2025 - 5:00PM
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A metal alloy has been developed by Chinese and Austrian scientists that barely expands over a vast temperature range. Photo: TU Wien
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China can detect US Seawolf-class submarine with magnetic wake tracking: study
Stealth may soon be an impossible feat for submarines, after scientists found a way to detect even the quietest underwater vessels.
7 Feb 2025 - 3:26PM
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China’s first counter-sanction on US biotech industry a turning point in tech war
Leading American genomic sequencing firm Illumina says it is evaluating Beijing’s announcement with hope of ‘positive resolution’.
6 Feb 2025 - 6:35PM
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China’s social media reels at Musk’s ‘bioweapon theory’ for Covid-19 pandemic
Chinese internet users react to claim that USAID-funded research led to creation of the virus, contradicting scientific consensus.
7 Feb 2025 - 2:57PM
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No more engine trade-off: Chinese-led design breaks power, efficiency deadlock
Research paves way for potentially revolutionary advances in energy conversion technologies that could lead to more efficient heat engines.
6 Feb 2025 - 10:21AM
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A paper by scientists including researchers from China and Switzerland said when many small parts of a system work together, they could convert energy more efficiently, offering new possibilities for future engine technology. Photo: Shutterstock
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DeepSeek ‘is biggest shock to come out of China in 185 years’
Leading scientist Rao Yi argues that the significance of the tech’s challenge to US dominance lies in ‘how surprising it was to the world’.
7 Feb 2025 - 5:42PM
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China’s biggest 2024 advances hold new promise for quantum tech, healthcare
From a brain-inspired vision chip to an ice core time machine, these were the most important breakthroughs last year, according to top experts.
5 Feb 2025 - 1:12PM
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More rice, less gas: Chinese-Swedish team makes hybrid to cut methane emissions
Researchers hope to register their rice in China for farmers and are working with firms to add oxantel to fertilisers.
5 Feb 2025 - 9:00AM
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Audrey Jiajia Li
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Can DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng stay true to his AI ideals?
12 Feb 2025 - 8:30PM
Brian Y. S. Wong
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DeepSeek success shouldn’t be seen as a win for China or loss for US
4 Feb 2025 - 8:30PM
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Josephine Ma
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DeepSeek isn’t just a wake-up call for the US, there are lessons for China too
4 Feb 2025 - 7:00PM
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Bert George
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Why DeepSeek caught so many in the West by surprise
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US-China tech war’s next front will be autonomous vehicles
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US-China quantum contest winner will shape the world’s future
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