At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about it. In a video ...

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, ...

If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement. Neither will there necessarily be a dramatic Promethean ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. China wants more robotics talent. The country's elite universities are preparing to launch a new undergraduate major in ...

Charles Lieber leads China's i-BRAIN lab with advanced resources and state funding Lab is recruiting researchers for studies on monkeys as models for human brain-computer interfaces Case highlights ...

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 ...

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 ...

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. By this fundamental definition, China's ...

Editor’s note: On December 16th GuoWang, a satellite constellation backed by China’s central government, launched its first batch of ten satellites. It would be the country’s second competitor for ...

China chases breakthroughs in AI, chips, space, nuclear and quantum Hopes AI will transform manufacturing, boost productivity China to invest in basic research, building STEM talent base BEIJING, ...