Researchers developed a technique that uses a low-cost material – lithium tantalate – that is already being used to make smartphone components.

While many people just enjoyed the spectacle caused by ‘strongest aurora in 20 years’, forecasters warned that powerful geomagnetic storms could disrupt communications and navigation.

The edit, which helps the crop resist a common fungal infection, was approved within an unusually short period.

Readers discuss nurturing the human capacity for learning, embracing the technology and using it ethically and responsibly.

Researchers are creating an AI system that can explain its decisions, amid the intense US-China AI arms race.

The model overcomes existing forecasting challenges, as it does not need historical records to make predictions.

Developer CASC said initial satellite in the ambitious broadband constellation was sent 20,000km above the Earth where it will test core technologies.

Scientists are studying China’s Meihua Fortress to see how it managed to withstand repeated attacks over centuries.

Experiment opens ‘intriguing pathways’ for future research, with possible implications for computing or communications.

Celebrated mathematician Yau Shing-Tung says the country’s mathematics research is not yet at the level of the US in the 1940s.

Researchers in China and the US have pinpointed a gene defect that opens an interspecies door.

A top physicist is ‘confident’ Chinese scientists can build the world’s largest collider, as debate of the project continues.

‘Aqueous batteries with high energy density are possible, offering a development option for grid-scale energy storage, and even electric vehicles’: researchers.

Study finds anti-ageing component that can be extracted from bodily fluids to extend life of laboratory mice.

Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for scientific study.

Zhang Yongzhen, who camped outside his Shanghai lab after parent hospital shut him out, has provoked wave of public sympathy and questioning of treatment meted out to noted virologist.

An adult male named Rakus chewed a plant used by people in Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation, then applied it to an injury on his right cheek.

Researchers make a major advance towards achieving the ‘holy grail’ of renewable energy, nuclear fusion.

Archaeologists have reconstructed the features of Shanidar Z, whose skull was discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Fossilised footprints in Fujian province point to new type of dinosaur that is one of the biggest known raptors – far larger than the human-sized ‘aggressive hunters’ shown in blockbuster films.

Four YF-100K engines pass ignition test to ‘fully verify’ their compatibility and individual reliability, chief designer said.

Almost 10 years after the ‘Made in China 2025’ targets were drawn up, we investigate just how many have been achieved.

Chinese researchers detail how technology has transformed the region’s textile industry and led to record surge in exports.

Chinese-built Cosco vessel to help cut emissions as the battery-powered ship begins weekly service.

Lunar lander designed to be the first to bring materials back from the surface that faces away from Earth.

Electric-driven robots are quieter, more efficient, less costly to operate and less prone to breakdowns.

Algorithm that highlights lesions on the gullet for doctors during an endoscopy is now used in hundreds of hospitals in China.

China is demanding more and better research to unearth the technology of tomorrow – but a research culture based around titles and participation in certain programmes is limiting the potential of its scientists.

It is the first time Chinese space authorities have openly suggested timeline for Tianwen-3 mission puts it ahead of Nasa’s plans.