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We have put together stories from our coverage on science from the past two weeks to help you stay informed. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.
1. China deploys prototype of missile defence system with planet-wide coverage

China has deployed a working prototype of a global defence system similar to the United States’ proposed Golden Dome, while hailing a breakthrough in data processing technology for worldwide threat management, according to scientists involved in the project.
2. World’s highest bridge to open to traffic in China’s mountainous southwest
A bridge described by Chinese state media as the world’s highest will open to traffic on Sunday in the mountainous southwestern province of Guizhou. The suspension bridge, which took three years to build, crosses the Huajiang Grand Canyon and is intended to cut travel times across the gorge from two hours to just a few minutes, state news agency Xinhua reported.
3. China’s Tsinghua University tops multiple global rankings for computer science
China’s Tsinghua University has emerged as the world’s top institution in computer science across multiple major global rankings, marking a symbolic shift in a field once dominated by American universities.
4. World’s most powerful flying wind turbine launched in western China

China has successfully flown the world’s largest and most powerful airborne wind turbine, a milestone that could bring cheaper, more reliable green energy and strengthen the country’s leading role in the global clean energy transition.
5. Maths star Yuan Yuan returns to China after more than 20 years in US

After more than two decades in the United States, internationally recognised mathematician Yuan Yuan has returned to China as a full-time professor at Westlake University in Hangzhou. He joined Westlake’s Institute for Theoretical Sciences in May, just months after being promoted to full professor at Syracuse University in New York, according to the university’s website.
6. Chinese army engineers run first triple-nuke-strike experiment in lab
The US military launched a covert strike on Iranian nuclear facilities in June, dropping several massive bunker-busting bombs on a single target. While US officials claimed the sites were completely destroyed, some reports suggested the core of these facilities might have survived.
7. China’s industrial revolution to make rockets and satellites like cars
China’s aerospace industry is undergoing a quiet but potentially game-changing manufacturing revolution that could make rockets and satellites as efficiently produced as cars, according to scientists involved in the project.


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China’s ‘Golden Dome’ prototype, world’s highest bridge: 7 science highlights

The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China took three years to build. Photo: Xinhua

On May 20, US President Donald Trump announced he had selected the path forward for his ambitious Golden Dome missile defense shield. A Chinese team has announced it has its own working prototype of a global defence system. Photo: EPA-EFE

The airship-like S1500 is about the size of a basketball court and as tall as a 13-storey building. Photo: Handout

Yuan Yuan has joined Westlake University’s Institute for Theoretical Sciences. Photo: Handout

Top AI expert moves to China, world’s longest cable-stayed bridge: 7 science highlights

The Changtai Yangtze River Bridge started operating on Tuesday, September 9. Photo: Xinhua

Alex Kot serves as distinguished professor and chief scientist at Shenzhen MSU-BIT University (SMBU), a Chinese-foreign cooperative university. Photo: Handout

A US nuclear submarine seen during military exercises 70 nautical miles (130km) off Cartagena, Colombia. Photo: Colombian National Navy/AFP

Scientists said they had ruled out the possibility that the carving had been made using modern techniques. Photo: Weixin/ 光明文化記憶

Top Harvard professor leaves US for China, plastic waste into petrol: 7 science highlights

Liu Jun, one of the world’s leading statisticians and a longtime professor at Harvard University, has returned to China full time, accepting a prestigious chair at Tsinghua University last month. Photo: Handout


Global cumulative plastic production is said to have reached 10 billion tonnes. Photo: Getty Images

Chinese and US scientists have discovered that Mars, also known as the red planet, has a solid inner core. Photo: Shutterstock

The CAS rocket carrying seven satellites, including two from Mexico, blasts off from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone in northwest China on August 19. 2025. Photo: EPA

China’s first high-speed jet drone, top aviation engineer leaves US: 7 science highlights

China’s first VTOL drone jet fires up its engine before a test flight. Photo: Beihang University

Scientists have long been looking for ways to make biological tissues transparent so that they can study organs without damaging their internal structures by cutting through them. Photo: Handout

A scientific paper published in China outlines changes that were made to the Chang’e-6 mission, which blasted off on board a Long March-5 rocket on May 3, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

Increased vegetation cover was linked to reduced moisture levels in the soil in some parts of the world, including parts of Australia and the US. Photo: Reuters

China’s super steel for nuclear fusion, new ‘Darwin Monkey’ computer: 7 science highlights

The “Darwin Monkey” is made up of 960 Darwin 3 brain-inspired computing chips creating over 100 billion synapses. Photo: Handout


Chinese scientists say they can create a zone of electromagnetic calm, similar to the eye of a storm at the heart of an intense signal jamming environment. Photo: Shutterstock 

Li Hanfeng. Photo: Handout

Unlike the more common cubic diamonds, the hexagonal structure of a meteorite diamond is believed to have been formed in the intense heat and pressure generated by the impact with Earth. Illustration: Shutterstock

China’s stealth design software breakthrough, mega dam project boost: 7 science highlights

Team based in China also finds that the use of specific drugs in combination with chemotherapy could be used to inhibit this process in mice, with a clinical trial already under way in breast cancer patients. Photo: AP

The US X-47B programme was cancelled 10 years ago. Photo: AP

The mega dam across the Yarlung Tsangpo River could produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges dam further south. Photo: AFP

US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites with GBU-57 bunker busters in June met with reportedly little resistance. Photo: AP

China’s CR450AF EMU (left) and CR400AF-S EMU trains are displayed at the 12th UIC High-Speed Railway Congress at the National Railway Test Centre in Beijing on July 9. Photo: EPA

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From maths star’s return to China to opening of world’s highest bridge, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting


From maths star’s return to China to opening of world’s highest bridge, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.


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China’s ‘Golden Dome’ prototype, world’s highest bridge: 7 science highlights

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From maths star’s return to China to opening of world’s highest bridge, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting

1. China deploys prototype of missile defence system with planet-wide coverage

From maths star’s return to China to opening of world’s highest bridge, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting