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Artemis 2 crew members (from left) Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover appear via video link during a mission update on Thursday. Photo: NASA via AP
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China watching ‘like a hawk’ as US Artemis 2 crew fixes toilet on moon trip

Eyeing a lunar landing by 2030, Beijing will be ‘looking attentively at everything they can glean’ from the American mission, expert says.

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China launches heavyweight rocket to challenge SpaceX’s Falcon 9. It fails

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How a proposed composite in China could strengthen drones, planes and rockets

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How China’s ‘pig semen eyedrop’ may help deliver Alzheimer’s treatment

Cutting-edge therapy could enable drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier making it suitable for dementia treatment, Adelaide researcher says.

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Pigs were chosen for the research because their tissue structure is similar to that of humans, and their supply is abundant. Photo: Shutterstock
Pigs were chosen for the research because their tissue structure is similar to that of humans, and their supply is abundant. Photo: Shutterstock
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‘Impossible for Chinese’: Yale scientist Zhang Kai leaves US for China

Pioneering work involves observing proteins inside the body during exercise, effectively capturing their activity in a natural state.

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How to take down a US F-35 over Iran? Chinese engineer’s tutorial goes viral

Striking phenomenon emerges from China as technically skilled civilians volunteer expertise online to help Iran counter US military might.

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Is China’s commercial rocket now cheaper than Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9?

Using the measure of cost per kilogram of payload capacity, CAS Space compares its Kinetica-2 to a US reusable rocket.

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A Kinetica-2 Y1 carrier rocket, also known as the Lijian-2 Y1, with three satellites onboard blasts off from a launch centre in northwestern China on Monday. Photo: Xinhua
A Kinetica-2 Y1 carrier rocket, also known as the Lijian-2 Y1, with three satellites onboard blasts off from a launch centre in northwestern China on Monday. Photo: Xinhua
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China’s far west site of a new bulwark against Mideast-induced resource woes

Ethylene glycol plant in Xinjiang is equipped with tech that includes green electricity coupling, carbon capture and storage.

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As Mandarin dominates Cantonese, this Hong Kong AI firm is pushing back

Hong Kong-based tech firm Votee AI aims to replicate its model for other low-resource languages in Southeast Asia and Africa.

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Inside the shadowy practices plaguing China’s science awards

Beijing has rolled out new rules for investigating violations in scientific activities. So why are critics still pessimistic?

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From Mach 0 to 6: this engine may power China’s future fighter jets and missiles

Revolutionary engine prototype three decades in the making could replace combined turbine-ramjet systems in high-speed flight.

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A graphic outlines the principle of the ramjet. Photo: CCTV
A graphic outlines the principle of the ramjet. Photo: CCTV
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‘To do something nobody’s done’: physicist Zhu Zijie leaves Europe for China

Rising star scientist returns to China to undertake cutting-edge research in the field of cold atoms.

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‘Lighthouses in space’: the Chinese jam-proof satellite network to fill GPS gaps

System places powerful light sources on satellites to send coded signals for drones, self-driving cars, space missions to navigate.

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‘Doctrine of the Mean’: how US lost a 2-decade race to China in brain implants

China scores commercial-use approval for implantable brain-computer interface making it the first invasive device available outside trials.

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A man demonstrates a robotic hand with a brain-computer interface, which identifies the patient’s motor signals and controls the exoskeleton to move the limbs of the patient. Photo: AFP
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China proposes a departure from impact factor to measure academic influence

Chinese researcher says traditional measure of a paper’s citations is susceptible to manipulation and lacks Chinese perspective.

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Two new Dongbi Index journal lists were unveiled in Shanghai on Saturday. The development team says they are “a multidimensional, multilevel evaluation system centred on research quality”. Photo: Shutterstock
Two new Dongbi Index journal lists were unveiled in Shanghai on Saturday. The development team says they are “a multidimensional, multilevel evaluation system centred on research quality”. Photo: Shutterstock
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Cambridge top architect Francois Penz relocates to China from UK

Pioneering French professor who blended architecture with film joins Nanjing University in a full-time position after 45 years at Cambridge.

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Chinese lithium battery electrolyte could double EV range, run in extreme cold

Research team says all-weather electrolyte offers a ‘promising pathway to break the power and energy density ceiling of batteries’.

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Leading Chinese hypersonic aviation scientist Yan Hong dies at 56

Yan graduated from and worked at the Northwestern Polytechnical University, which frequently appears on US sanctions lists.

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Yan Hong’s research focused on fields considered critical to the development of next-generation aerospace propulsion systems. Photo: Handout
Yan Hong’s research focused on fields considered critical to the development of next-generation aerospace propulsion systems. Photo: Handout
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Top Singaporean scientist Seeram Ramakrishna joins China’s Tsinghua University

The ‘father of electrospinning’, who taught for almost 30 years in the city state, will continue his research in Beijing.

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China team builds first silicon chip for future fault-tolerant quantum computing

Study found the device was able to carry out a full set of error-detecting logical operations, according to Shenzhen researchers.

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China flexes surveillance muscle with South China Sea garbage count

Satellite remote sensing and ship monitoring are among technologies used to cover the 3.5 million sq km of water, some in disputed areas.

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China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment says it counted 0.67 microplastic items per cubic metre in areas of the South China Sea. Photo: Shutterstock
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China opens world’s largest ship data set that could be used to train drones

The resource includes thousands of paired visible and infrared images that are expected to reshape vessel recognition at sea.

Ship recognition at sea is hampered by marine environments that are shaped by glare, shifting weather, long-range imaging degradation and cluttered backgrounds. Photo: Shutterstock
Ship recognition at sea is hampered by marine environments that are shaped by glare, shifting weather, long-range imaging degradation and cluttered backgrounds. Photo: Shutterstock
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Chinese satellite performs landmark refuelling test in low Earth orbit

‘Octopus tentacle’ robotic arm is a commercial project designed to extend the lifespan of spacecraft.

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China names AI tokens after the yuan. Should US worry for the dollar?

China has officially designated ciyuan as the translation for ‘token’, giving strong economic overtones to what has been a tech term.

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SCMP Highlights

China’s 7-day hypersonic design; Andy Lau’s Ming mystery: 7 science highlights

From top mathematician on leaving the US to China’s coal-to-medicine feat, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau appears to have shared a name with a Ming dynasty brickmaker. Photo: Getty Images
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