The animals are singular in their ability to grow a new set of antlers each year, thanks in large part to a combination of cancer-related and tumour-suppressing genes, a Chinese-led study has found.

The four-year project ranks the honesty of 40 nations by citizens’ willingness to report a lost wallet. Switzerland scored the highest overall.

Synthetic material which mimics and improves on nature could be used in China’s hypersonic space plane.

Group got through main exit by posing as visitors taking their relatives out for a break, after earlier finding key to security door ‘hidden’ on a windowsill.

Findings published in Science Advances support earliest recorded cannabis use, written in 440BC, while researchers speculate psychoactive THC had grim role in funeral rites.

New facility in Sichuan province will enable researchers to recreate the ‘extreme environments’ necessary to harness nuclear fusion.

China has become the first nation to fully own and operate a floating launch platform for its space missions.

Study of children prone to recurring colds identifies abnormally high presence of skin affecting bacteria.

Leading Chinese scientist warns approved modified babies could be just a year or two away.

Team’s process uses a new material to separate out the minerals used in hi-tech products – shortening extraction time from days to 20 minutes.

Acoustic device uses high frequency sound waves to detect variations in activity.

Beijing team believes it has solved problem of powering tens of billions of nanometre-sized transistors without burning out the chip.

Unveiled in Shandong, prototype will be a first step towards ground-breaking high-speed travel that will rival passenger jets, project engineer says.

Researchers say history of China’s biggest ethnic group is more complex than many have come to believe and that their newly released DNA study involving 20,000 unrelated people points to three rivers origins.

Yutu’s discovery of olivine helps pave the way for scientists to confirm existence of a mantle beneath satellite’s crust.

Scientific breakthrough leads to record low costs for essential battery ingredient as US and Europe seek to break Chinese dominance in global supply chain.

Investigation by Chinese newspaper finds would be buyers are willing to pay more for desirable physical traits and intelligence.

163-million-year-old fossil represents something extraordinary in evolutionary history.

Inspired by early colour television, method can create thousands of alloys quickly and leader of Beijing team says a ‘revolution in materials science’ is at hand for work and exploration in harshest environments.

Manufacturers are profiting from machines that mimic the senses of human experts but not everybody is ready to let a device have the last word on Chinese cuisine.

Beijing is leading negotiations to turn Dome Argus into a special zone for ‘scientific research and protecting the environment’, but some researchers say the United States is trying to block the plan.

Report reveals that Wuhan-based Accelink’s gear has been used in West for a decade while its clientele includes Huawei and it enjoys Nokia’s ‘complete trust’.

Xiamen University’s ‘double waverider’ makes its maiden flight in the Gobi, although the ‘game-changing’ technology is usually the preserve of the military.

Small probes can latch onto targets such as dead spacecraft in near-Earth orbit – and in a military scenario they could stay attached to avoid being tracked.

Brussels-based aerospace institute looks deeper into its relationship with state-owned Casic as analysts says cooperation on technology can be complicated by military links.

For the first time, the world is seeing a black hole – not an artist’s impression or a computer-generated likeness, but the real thing.

Distance no object, but China’s Fast did not have part in cosmic event because it could not properly be tuned in to targets that lie light years away.

Yancheng prison, which is home to high-status inmates such as Gu Kailai, the wife of Bo Xilai, hopes to use technology to monitor prisoners at all times.

Engineer alleges the park was set up without a proper planning process and accuses local authorities of turning a blind eye to the safety risks after taking bribes, official newspaper reports.