Chinese magnetic sensor breakthrough may help smartwatch detect submarine 500 metres deep
Picture a fisherman hauling in his nets on a calm morning at sea, when his smartwatch suddenly vibrates…
What is a glueball? Chinese-led team finds rare particle made entirely of force
In a historic breakthrough, a Chinese-led international team of scientists has confirmed the existence of the glueball –…
China finds first strong evidence of mysterious new matter glueball
In a global first, researchers at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in China have found experimental…
China team unearths world’s oldest amber, hidden in ancient Xinjiang coal seam
Chinese scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest verified amber in the northwestern Xinjiang region, revealing that ancient plants…
China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test
China’s first planetary defence mission appears to be far more ambitious than Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart),…
Chang’e-6 samples reveal how Earth’s magnetosphere changed the solar wind reaching the Moon
The Moon’s two hemispheres have spent billions of years facing very different surroundings. Its far side looks away…
Chinese scientists have bad news on having babies in space. But there is a silver lining
If the future of humanity lies in the vast expanse of space, could humans actually perpetuate the species…
Chinese tech makes desalinating seawater cheaper than producing bottled water
Desalination has always been an energy-hungry way of turning salt water into fresh water, making it largely the…
China-led team develops AI system to track radar-disrupting space hurricanes
A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect space hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth’s upper…
JUNO’s First Results Bring the Neutrino Mass Mystery Into Focus
A giant underground neutrino observatory in China has delivered its first major scientific result, achieving remarkably precise measurements…
2,297 feet underground, a giant Chinese detector catches ghost particles changing ‘flavors’
Scientists are using a detector in China, positioned 2,297 feet below the surface, to investigate neutrinos, the so-called…
For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die
The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique…