Minitrue: Control News on CRISPR Babies
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 30, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Sep 12, 2017
Internet censorship has long been a thorn in the side of activists, journalists, and others who...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 25, 2016
Soon after barring children from reality TV and scrubbing the colorful language of a rising...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 30, 2014
For Science, Mara Hvistendahl recounts the experiences of theoretical physicist Ulf Leonhardt, who...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 6, 2013
As NASA lies mostly dormant amid the U.S. government shutdown, scientists are challenging a...
by 不忘初心 | May 7, 2013
Fang Lizhi, the prominent astrophysicist who was sheltered by the US embassy and then fled China after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, denies any role behind the movement in his newly-published posthumous autobiography. From...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 5, 2013
At The New York Review of Books, Perry Link shares eight favorite memories of “astrophysicist, activist, and dissident” Fang Lizhi, who died on April 6th last year. In May, 1989, while student demonstrators were in...
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 | Dec 12, 2012
With the apocalypse now less than ten days away, China has been joining in the global festival of panic, resignation and denial at the imminent extinction of humanity. At China Real Time Report, Chao Deng described some Chinese...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 1, 2012
Physicist Fang Lizhi, who died in April, became most widely known for his year-long refuge in the American embassy in Beijing, beginning on June 5th, 1989. In China Quarterly and the Forum on International Physics Newsletter,...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 14, 2012
In the New York Review of Books, Perry Link remembers his friend Fang Lizhi, the physicist and one of China’s most prominent dissidents, who died last week: Fang’s path through life observed a pattern that is common to...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 7, 2012
Astrophysicist and democracy activist Fang Lizhi has passed away in Arizona. A former professor at China’s University of Science and Technology, Fang was an eloquent and outspoken dissident who helped spearhead the...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 14, 2011
The Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), under construction in Guizhou, will dwarf the 305-metre dish at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, currently the world’s largest. From Electronics...
by Sophie Beach | Jun 28, 2010
John Pomfret writes in the Washington Post: Centuries after it led the world in technological prowess — think gunpowder, irrigation and the printed word — China has barged back into the ranks of the great powers in...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 30, 2010
New Scientist writes about China’s recent gains in the scientific fields: Very quietly, China has become the world’s second-largest producer of scientific knowledge, surpassed only by the US, a status it has achieved...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 6, 2010
The New York Times reports on Chinese scientists who have made successful careers for themselves in the U.S. but choose to return to China after receiving generous incentive packages from the government: Determined to reverse...