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Dannie Peng
Reporter, China
Dannie joined SCMP in 2023 and focuses on science stories in China, with a particular interest in the scientific community and societal impacts of scientific advances. She previously worked for China Newsweek, covering topics including China's healthcare system, public health and science. She has won several awards for her investigative reporting.
Dannie joined SCMP in 2023 and focuses on science stories in China, with a particular interest in the scientific community and societal impacts of scientific advances. She previously worked for China Newsweek, covering topics including China's healthcare system, public health and science. She has won several awards for her investigative reporting.
Areas of Expertise:
Science, health, techLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
New biotech allows ‘seeds’ planted in the brain to differentiate into new nerve cells, reshaping its neural network.
Sacrificial victims in mass burials were mostly male, while burial attendants for nobles or elites were overwhelmingly female, study finds.
Sudden death marks China’s latest loss of a leading science mind at the height of their research career.
Frustrated by Western delays, top scientists have joined China’s BEST fusion project as it nears ‘uncharted territory’.
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Researchers find that the radical new approach has a similar effect on the brain to the use of ketamine or electroconvulsive therapy.
Top defence university pilots scheme aimed at solving ‘bottleneck’ engineering problems amid tech race with US.
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology says it has fired Guo Wei over the accusations of academic misconduct.
Controversial Nobel Prize winner helped to lay the groundwork for China to become a genomics and biotech powerhouse.
Return of pioneering scientists’ latest generation prompts more attention than usual among a growing trend.
Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.
Those who master ‘manufacture in space will gain the initiative in future space economic development’, according to Institute of Mechanics.
The research team’s straightforward alternative to expensive, complex and dangerous production method hailed as ‘Nobel Prize level’.
About half of the world’s under-construction nuclear power plants are in China as the country races to boost electricity supply and meet emissions reduction pledges.
The list fuels concerns about the pressures researchers face, but critics warn it may not provide an accurate picture.
The Hanyuan-1 is delivered to China Mobile subsidiary while Pakistan also places order, according to media.
This is the first in an SCMP Plus series annotating different parts of China’s five-year plan recommendations. The focus is on industry and technology.
One academic peer said the news of the computer scientist’s death from a suspected heart condition had come ‘too suddenly’.
Many Chinese degrees prioritise theory over practical experience and fail to prepare students for real-world employment, critics say.
PDIA1 and PDIA5 aid prostate cancer growth but are ‘also promising targets for new treatments’, biologist and lead author of study says.
Millisecond ‘kiss and run’ exchange – captured in a lab in China on the world’s first camera equipped to do it – solves a 50-year-old debate.
Coordinated strategy of aggressive funding, talent repatriation and rapid prototyping is a bid to challenge Western dominance in the field.
Masterpiece by calligrapher Wang Xianzhi restored in full using artificial intelligence and fragments of the original.
Scepticism from intellectuals and the general public has grown, adding an unexpected twist to the two countries’ long-term partnership.
Researchers lament ‘grossly uneven’ system in which a small number of top-tier teams secure a high share of resources.
Peking University says it has developed two prototypes for exploring terrain considered ideal for establishing human bases.
The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Guizhou rises around 625 metres above a river to around the same height as the Shanghai Tower.
The urbanist and two Brazilian filmmakers were making a documentary about his nature-based concept.
Nuclear fusion offers near limitless, pollution-free energy provided that scientists in China and elsewhere can sustain reactions at temperatures six times hotter than the sun’s core.
Giant main arm of robotic system shown to handle payload of 60 tonnes with exceptional precision, bringing goal of ‘artificial sun’ closer.
