Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China ...

China has launched an AI system that can independently run complex scientific research using its national supercomputing ...

In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

A decade ago Nature, a scientific publisher, began tallying the contributions made by researchers at different institutions to papers published across a set of 145 respected journals. When the first ...

Pioneering scientist takes up new position at Westlake University to seek ‘fresh exploration’ with greater freedom and ...

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Changsha, Beijing ...

China’s scientific collaboration with other countries has declined since the pandemic, driven by falling partnerships with the United States, an analysis shows. Scientists have been warning that ...