Studies send mixed messages whether the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be able to tackle the variant that emerged in Britain.

New extra-large buoy detects intruders to alert naval forces in area disputed with Japan and South Korea, where such devices have been vandalised.

In worst case, the number of Covid-19 infections in the United States could rise to 32 million, study says.

Peer-reviewed research shows the virus was present in a stored skin sample taken from a Milan woman with a mysterious illness.

A study by Chinese scientists found that sex became a far more important factor in how people viewed their relationship than before.

The largest study of its kind found that most of those treated in a Wuhan hospital were still showing symptoms six months after being sent home.

Peking University team say their sensing chip is as accurate as the standard PCR testing, based on initial study results.

Facility in Guizhou can detect signals no other telescope on Earth can and has already been seeking signs of extraterrestrial communications.

Most masks shed microplastic fibres that are inhaled by wearers and may be harmful, although any effects are outweighed by the benefits, Chinese scientists say.

A timetable for vaccination is yet to be fixed, but delivery of the first batch of 1 million jabs from Sinovac – originally expected in January – could be delayed.

Two of the currently available vaccinations against Covid-19 use a relatively new technology which has not been approved before.

Chinese scientists use computer simulation to update understanding of impacts on bombproof underground sites.

Mutated strain has seen new infections spike after months of falling numbers.

One team of researchers says a dam over the Yangtze is affecting the fish’s gonads while another team says the big issue is a change in water temperature.

Apollo 11 expert and space historian praises three out of three successes after raising a Tsingtao to returning capsule.

Spacecraft is set to land in the Inner Mongolia region on Thursday morning but it still has many challenges to overcome, Bian Hancheng says.

Discovery made after researchers in Milan review blood tests taken in late 2019 from group of children initially thought to have contracted measles.

Almost every strain of common bacteria E coli found by scientists had become resistant to multiple drugs.

HL-2M Tokamak could help hit a target of producing fusion energy commercially by 2050, as scientists try to solve problems facing a reactor China aims to build.

Researchers say prototype performed a trillion times faster than the most powerful conventional computer.

The probe is expected to land in Inner Mongolia in less than two weeks, with 2kg of samples from the lunar surface and underground.

Run on a solar battery, the spacecraft has two days to gather rocks and dust from the surface and drill underground.

Prototype of ‘sodramjet’, flown in wind tunnel simulating conditions at nine times the speed of sound, may enable hypersonic commercial flight, scientists say.

Hou Jianguo has been named the Communist Party secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese research says a strain can be traced to eight countries before the Wuhan outbreak, and first human transmission may have been on Indian subcontinent.

Long March 5 rocket carrying spacecraft takes off in China’s most complex mission yet.

Researchers say home remedy might be able to speed up recovery but their findings are only preliminary.

Study by oncologists stating there was evidence of Covid-19 in Italy in September last year has been dismissed by some inside the science community.

Researchers only recently learnt that viral life forms could survive in fossil fuels and are trying to find out more about the possible risk to humans.

New research suggests pathogen infected people across the country months before it was detected in China.