“Hidden Ruler” Wang Huning Steps Onstage
Of the five new arrivals on China’s top Politburo Standing Committee at last month’s...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 16, 2017
Of the five new arrivals on China’s top Politburo Standing Committee at last month’s...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 13, 2017
The Two Sessions in Beijing offer an annual chance for delegates to China’s top legislative and...
by Anne Henochowicz | Sep 29, 2016
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Feb 16, 2016
In March 2011, China began work on what will soon become the world’s largest radio...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 7, 2015
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 28, 2015
At Nature, Shanghai Maritime University’s Zheng Wan warns that China’s scientific...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 26, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 22, 2014
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 24, 2014
At The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian mounts a long exploration of the International...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 12, 2014
New Scientist’s Jacob Aron reports that China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has been...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 31, 2014
Chinese scientists’ creation of a pair of genetically modified long-tailed macaques named...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 10, 2014
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum...
by Samuel Wade | Dec 30, 2013
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 18, 2013
Scientists at Hefei’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have achieved a major...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 8, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 17, 2013
‘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....
by Samuel Wade | Feb 17, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 15, 2013
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...