The United States Senate has passed a landmark, bipartisan bill to dramatically increase government spending on technological development. The bill, known as the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, allocates $250 billion to...
This weekend, the Chinese public mourned the passing of Yuan Longping, the Chinese agronomist whose scientific breakthroughs in rice development helped to usher in the Green Revolution that ended famine in large parts of the...
Of the five new arrivals on China’s top Politburo Standing Committee at last month’s...
The Two Sessions in Beijing offer an annual chance for delegates to China’s top legislative and...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
In March 2011, China began work on what will soon become the world’s largest radio...
On October 5, 2015, 84-year-old pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou was one of three recipients...
At Nature, Shanghai Maritime University’s Zheng Wan warns that China’s scientific...
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
China’s online controls have not stopped four of its biggest internet companies from...
At The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian mounts a long exploration of the International...
New Scientist’s Jacob Aron reports that China’s Jade Rabbit moon rover has been...
Chinese scientists’ creation of a pair of genetically modified long-tailed macaques named...
Following recent Snowden revelations about the American NSA’s efforts towards quantum...
The New Yorker’s Michael Specter visits BGI Shenzhen, the world’s largest sequencer of...
Scientists at Hefei’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have achieved a major...
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...
‘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....
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