Science News in China

Scientists find clues in satellite imagery to the cause of catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet

Scientists find clues in satellite imagery to the cause of catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet

How Shenzhen can win the ‘AI for science’ race

The next big competition in artificial intelligence is over science. The question is shifting from who has the largest model to who can use AI to shorten the discovery cycle: fo...

Humanoids have bodies. They still need brains.

China's humanoid boom has solved the most visible part of the problem: figuring out how to hobble together a body. The harder part now is building a brain.

‘The most stunning launch footage I've ever seen’: Watch the DJI Osmo Action 6’s incredible 4K footage of a Chinese rocket’s return trip to earth through 500C heat

DJI fixed twelve Osmo Action 6s to a LandSpace’s Zhuque-3 reusable rocket, recording POV footage of China's first successful land-based orbital launch and recovery. There were n...

Could the delay to China’s moon mission ease pressure on Nasa?

China’s delay of a high-stakes mission to hunt for water ice near the moon’s south pole may slow its lunar ambitions, but is unlikely to change the bigger contest with the Unite...

Ming dynasty work shows how Chinese understood the world in the 1600s

Long before the digital age, a Ming dynasty scholar made it his mission to map human knowledge from a Chinese perspective. The result was an encyclopaedia spanning 127 volumes k...

Can AI discover new biology?

It began with an unexpected result in an automated laboratory in Zhangjiang, Shanghai. In traditional drug discovery, laboratory capacity is tightly budgeted, and evaluating unc...

China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch

China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang’e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch,...

Debate star and physicist Guo Yanliang leaves a top European quantum lab for China

Guo Yanliang, a champion debater who honed his argumentation skills in international contests and on online variety shows, has left one of Europe’s top quantum laboratories to s...

China delays ambitious Chang’e 7 moon mission until 2027

The search for frozen water is crucial to both China’s and NASA’s plans to establish permanent moon bases

Meet Dai Zheng, the space veteran betting on China’s reusable rocket revolution

Ten years ago, Dai Zheng made a career-defining gamble: he left his secure, prestigious engineering post in China’s state space programme to join an unproven private start-up. O...

China postpones launch of unprecedented water-hunting moon mission amid space race

Due to need for 'absolute success,' China delays critical Moon launch to 2027

"The Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch."

China abruptly delays ambitious Chang’e-7 mission to find water ice on moon

China has postponed its Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was due to launch in the coming days and search for water ice near the Moon’s south pole, a government agency said Saturda...

Bad weather delays launch of China's historic Chang'e 7 mission to moon's south pole

China has delayed its ambitious ice-hunting Chang'e 7 mission to the moon's south pole due to a brewing storm near the launch site. A new target date has not been announced.

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch

HAIKOU, China (AP) — China said on Sunday it was postponing its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ...

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch

HAIKOU, China (AP) — China said on Sunday it was postponing its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission, which was set to carry out explorations including searching for water ...