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Latest news on research and breakthroughs by Chinese scientists, as the country ramps up investment in science and innovation as part of its ambitions to become a world-leading power by 2035, and other developments worldwide.
LATEST China Science NEWS

Failures force China to cancel rocket launches – but maybe not for Long March-10A

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A photo circulating online on Saturday appears to show a rocket at a launch site at the Wenchang space port. Photo: RedNote

This Chinese scientist boosts the PL-15 missiles that downed India’s Rafales

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The Pakistan Air Force deploys the Chinese-made J-10CE, a single-engine, delta-wing fighter jet. Photo: AFP

Chinese scientists shrink semiconductor chip into fibre as thin as human hair

A fibre integrated circuit is a novel electronic device that is as thin as a strand of human hair. Photo: Handout

Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost

Industrial starch is mainly derived from corn. Photo: Xinhua

China’s new analogue chip could cut over 99% of AI data centre energy needs

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A research team at Peking University is developing an alternative to digital-based AI systems using an older, analogue-based technology. Photo: Getty Images
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The Pakistan Air Force deploys the Chinese-made J-10CE, a single-engine, delta-wing fighter jet. Photo: AFP
Pakistan

This Chinese scientist boosts the PL-15 missiles that downed India’s Rafales

Fan Huitao and his team, working on a ‘711’ schedule, are credited with driving China’s air-to-air missile development to fourth generation.

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Mainland China

Chinese scientists shrink semiconductor chip into fibre as thin as human hair

Mainland China

Chinese scientists turn carbon dioxide to starch with 10-fold productivity boost

United States

Wilczek’s Multiverse | Revisiting the peaks of Nobel laureate Chen-ning Yang’s remarkable career

The inspirational Chinese physicist, who lived to the age of 103, was renowned for two historic achievements.

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China’s new analogue chip could cut over 99% of AI data centre energy needs

Chinese scientists go back to the future for inspiration that could reshape the power-hungry artificial intelligence model.

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Shanghai

A mother’s mind appears restored: might ultrasound be a cure for Alzheimer’s?

After treatment for a separate condition, a Chinese neurologist noticed improvements in cognition.

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Mainland China

Asthma has no cure. For some, the risk is in this gene, Chinese team finds

Researchers create Chinese Immune Multi-Omics Atlas, profiling more than 10 million immune cells and identifying 73 types of immune cells.

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Scientist Yin Jianhua says a Chinese team’s research shows that asthma is closely related to the immune system, suggesting that immune-related treatments could be a viable option for therapy. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

Ex-Chinese factory worker Gao Huijun to head top international electronics body

The new head of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society started his academic career by studying at night when worked as a machinist.

Mainland China

China found something strange on far side of moon no one had seen in nature

The Chang’e-6 lunar probe found tiny tubes formed by a single layer of atoms – something that has previously been seen only in a lab.

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Indonesia

World’s oldest cave art discovered in Indonesia

A handprint dating back at least 67,800 years is over a thousand years older than hand stencils in Spain that are attributed to Neanderthals.

Handprints with sharpened fingertips are seen in the Maros region of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photo: Ahdi Agus Oktaviana/Maxime Aubert via AP
Mainland China

China is building a triad reactor system to power world-class chemical plant

Project uses nuclear energy to pump clean steam to the petrochemical industry while also supplying electricity.

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Construction of the nuclear island for unit 1 of the Xuwei nuclear heating and power project’s first phase began on Friday with the pouring of the first tank of concrete. Photo: Xinhua
Britain

The West cheered China’s coal-fired export ban. Then came the massive blackouts

Did Beijing’s decision to stop financing overseas coal plants after pressure from US and Europe lead to mass – yet avoidable – power cuts?

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Britain

Scientists plan deep-sea expedition to probe ‘dark oxygen’

The existence of a previously unknown source of oxygen would call into question long-held assumptions about the origins of life on Earth.

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Mainland China

First contact: in quest for moon water, Chinese team flags risk in touching ice

Scientists warn water on the moon is locked in frozen soil, not exposed to air and held in place only by cold and vacuum.

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The Chang’e-7 mission is expected to touch down on the rim of Shackleton crater near the lunar south pole this year as part of China’s search for water on the moon. Photo: Handout
Mainland China

China suffers unprecedented double rocket launch failures in a single day

Saturday’s twin failures involved a state-owned rocket and a private one, but observers attribute them to industry’s growing pains.

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Saturday’s Long March-3B failure was the first in more than five years. Photo: Xinhua
Mainland China

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returns to Earth broken and unbroken

‘Exceptionally precious’ data gained during unforeseen nine months in orbit to be used for ‘future design improvements’.

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Chinese history

Chinese team restores legendary Tang dynasty ‘golden’ armour from Tibetan tomb

Tomb’s occupant confirmed to be a Tuyuhun king and the golden armour is likely to have been among his prized possessions, conservators say.

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Mainland China

Quantum physicist You Chenglong joins cutting-edge Chinese research institute

The researcher is reported to have left the US to take up a position at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

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You Chenglong is a specialist in quantum sensing and precision measurement. Photo: LSU Quantum Photonics Group
China-Latin America relations

China, Chile to explore Atacama Trench with ‘tools no other country possesses’

Three-month expedition will plumb uncharted depths of eastern Pacific in quest for new life forms and insights into quakes and tsunamis.

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Semiconductors

Could China’s ion implanter ‘scalpel’ carve out secure chip supply chains?

The technology is central to some forms of semiconductor manufacturing and dominated by overseas players.

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uruguay

How can China help Uruguay battle beetles threatening to invade South America?

A small reddish insect is on the march and Chinese space technology could halt the pest’s path of destruction.

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Authorities in Uruguay are battling the red palm weevil, an insect that devours native palm trees. Photo: AP
Mainland China

Could flying wind farms be the future of energy generation in China?

The test of an ‘alien-looking’ giant airship in the skies above Sichuan created a buzz on social media.

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The airship was tested in the skies above Sichuan. Photo: Weibo/ 爱信阳
Mainland China

CO2 + H2O = cleaner recycling of dead lithium batteries?

Chinese team says their process can recover most of the lithium without the need for harsh and polluting chemicals.

Wellness

We rewrite our memories every time we recall a moment. How that can help us

Every time we recall something, it sets off actions that change us and alter our memories – something that could have therapeutic benefits.

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Mainland China

Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years

Researchers have made the first direct observation of a quantum phenomenon known as the Migdal effect.

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Understanding dark matter would transform our knowledge of the universe. Photo: Getty Images
Mainland China

China’s 7,000-year-old sunmao woodwork led to the most efficient DNA editing tool

Quest to beat the US saw a Chinese team turn to ancient traditions, leading to a new technique 10 times more effective than other methods.

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The new gene-editing strategy is more precise at insertion and replacement in rice. Photo: Shutterstock
Mainland China

China’s supercooling tech packs 40% more punch into chips used in military radar

The innovation is expected to boost the performance of gallium nitride-based radar systems, widely used in China’s advanced stealth planes.

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Aerospace: Companies

Could China’s Yaogan-47 satellite have a lens as wide as the Hubble Telescope?

Chinese satellite will be used for national land surveys, urban planning, environmental management and comprehensive disaster prevention.

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