US State Department approves massive deal that includes billions in Himars and howitzer equipment, drones and software.
Mainland visitor numbers rose just 3% in November after flight cuts and travel warnings took effect as diplomatic strains escalated.
18 Dec 2025 - 9:14AM videocam
In China, unhealthy lifestyles, pollution and work-related stress are cited in public health discussions around declining sperm quality.
15 Dec 2025 - 4:43PM videocam
Beijing and Washington battle for tech domination with next-gen plans to launch supercomputers into orbit and transform global connectivity.
12 Dec 2025 - 11:00PM videocam
Tributes to the ‘distinguished architectural educator, scholar and curator’ from Syracuse University say he was killed on Monday.
9 Dec 2025 - 8:40PM videocam
Lead-zinc mine in Kunlun Mountains of Xinjiang sits at an altitude surpassing the world’s highest human settlement, in the Peruvian Andes.
8 Dec 2025 - 10:27AM videocam
New biotech allows ‘seeds’ planted in the brain to differentiate into new nerve cells, reshaping its neural network.
7 Dec 2025 - 6:20AM videocam
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.
28 Nov 2025 - 5:59PM videocam
Frustrated by Western delays, top scientists have joined China’s BEST fusion project as it nears ‘uncharted territory’.
26 Nov 2025 - 12:44PM videocam
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.
24 Nov 2025 - 10:00AM videocam
Jiangsu University of Science and Technology says it has fired Guo Wei over the accusations of academic misconduct.
20 Nov 2025 - 10:33PM videocam
Controversial Nobel Prize winner helped to lay the groundwork for China to become a genomics and biotech powerhouse.
17 Nov 2025 - 11:33PM videocam
Return of pioneering scientists’ latest generation prompts more attention than usual among a growing trend.
17 Nov 2025 - 9:06PM videocam
Emerging tech that uses light to boost computer power is already being used in aerospace, biomedicine and finance.
14 Nov 2025 - 12:54AM videocam
Those who master ‘manufacture in space will gain the initiative in future space economic development’, according to Institute of Mechanics.
10 Nov 2025 - 4:05PM videocam
The research team’s straightforward alternative to expensive, complex and dangerous production method hailed as ‘Nobel Prize level’.
10 Nov 2025 - 3:43PM videocam
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.
3 Nov 2025 - 12:00PM videocam
The Hanyuan-1 is delivered to China Mobile subsidiary while Pakistan also places order, according to media.
2 Nov 2025 - 9:00PM videocam
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.
25 Oct 2025 - 7:04AM videocam
PDIA1 and PDIA5 aid prostate cancer growth but are ‘also promising targets for new treatments’, biologist and lead author of study says.
21 Oct 2025 - 4:02PM videocam
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.
20 Oct 2025 - 2:56PM videocam
Coordinated strategy of aggressive funding, talent repatriation and rapid prototyping is a bid to challenge Western dominance in the field.
17 Oct 2025 - 9:55AM videocam
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.
8 Oct 2025 - 11:54PM videocam