“Hidden Ruler” Wang Huning Steps Onstage
Of the five new arrivals on China’s top Politburo Standing Committee at last month’s...
scientific development
All
LatestCall for Narrower Internet Control Echoes
The Two Sessions in Beijing offer an annual chance for delegates to China’s top legislative and...
Words of the Week: Unlucky Enough to be Born in China
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
9,000 to be Displaced for Massive Radio Telescope
In March 2011, China began work on what will soon become the world’s largest radio...
An Appeal From Mao Led Tu Youyou to a Nobel Prize
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
China’s Scientific Progress Hinges on Access to Data
At Nature, Shanghai Maritime University’s Zheng Wan warns that China’s scientific...
Phrase of the Week: Use the Internet Scientifically
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
China Clamps Down on Web, Pinching Firms Like Google
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from...
Fusion Power, China, and Political Will
At The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian mounts a long exploration of the International...
Yutu’s Fate Unclear as China’s Space Program Rises
New Scientist’s Jacob Aron reports that China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has been...
Nanjing Team Creates Genetically Modified Monkeys
Chinese scientists’ creation of a pair of genetically modified long-tailed macaques named...
China Seeks Quantum Codebreaking at Any Cost
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum...
Inside BGI, China’s Genomics Factory
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
China Takes One Small Step Towards Fusion Power
Scientists at Hefei’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have achieved a major...
Chinese Genome-Sequencer Leads Autism Research
At Economic Observer, Nick Compton assesses the fruits of a two-year partnership between BGI-Shenzhen and American advocacy group Autism Speaks. Early results suggest that genes may contribute to around half of all cases of...
Shenzhen Genetics Firm Aims for Brighter Babies
‘China’s Bio-Google’ BGI-Shenzhen has attracted increasing attention in recent months, not least for its work with American psychologist Robert Plomin on tracing the genetic causes of exceptional intelligence....
China’s “Bio-Google” Hunts for Roots of Genius
At The Wall Street Journal, Gautam Naik details one of Chinese gene-sequencing firm BGI’s current projects: a search for the genetic roots of exceptional intelligence, conducted together with Robert Plomin at King’s...
Inside China’s Genome Factory
At MIT Technology Review, Christina Larson profiles the world’s most prolific DNA sequencer, BGI-Shenzhen, which has unravelled the genomes of the rice plant and the giant panda, contributed to the international Human...
SUPPORT CDT
CDT EBOOKS
Giving Assistant
Amazon Smile
Life Without Walls
Click on the image to download Firefly for circumvention
