Balancing an egg: How scientists built a floating magnet to hunt dark matter
A magnet the thickness of a few sheets of paper floats in mid-air with essentially no friction. It…
Chinese-German team builds ultra-sensitive ‘floating compass’ to hunt dark matter
Chinese researchers have developed a table-top magnetic sensor that operates at room temperature and can spot magnetic signals…
China’s ‘K-shaped’ economy is divided not just by sector, but geography
China’s so-called K-shaped economy has attracted attention in recent months, as official data shows a disparity between the…
Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall
Over the past five decades, China has planted 66 billion trees in a massive wall that spans the…
What fuels global trade imbalances: China’s overcapacity or America’s failure to adapt?
China’s industrial overcapacity should not be singled out for blame amid trade imbalances, as economies worldwide are struggling…
People Were Fitted With Wings in VR and Their Brains Started Treating Them Almost Like Body Parts
Credit: Pexels Twenty-five volunteers put on VR headsets, moved their arms and twisted their wrists. On screen, feathered…
Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
Declaration of interests Q E S Adnani reports grants or contracts as a recipient of the study under…
China’s ‘common prosperity’ push faces reality check as inequality rises: study
Chinese citizens are facing growing inequality in wages and wealth, constraining the country’s “common prosperity” agenda at a…
China’s 3-satellite surveillance network, Hong Kong’s inflation surge: SCMP’s 7 highlights
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region…
‘To do something nobody’s done’: quantum physicist Zhu Zijie leaves Europe for China
Science and Nature are among the world’s most prestigious journals, which most scientists strive to publish in but…
Economic Security 101: why China’s officials now have to study rare earths and supply chains
In his decades toiling as a health official in a coastal Chinese province, Alan Chen has rarely had…
China can’t buy Elon Musk’s theory on space-based AI centres: experts
China should not follow SpaceX in launching artificial intelligence data centres into orbit, but instead focus on more…