Chinese Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang dies, aged 103
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103. Yang died…
Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher
A star Chinese artificial intelligence researcher has left Anthropic to join a rival company, citing the American AI…
Chinese physicists produce most powerful stable magnetic field on Earth
An all-superconducting magnet built by Chinese scientists has generated a world-record steady magnetic field of 35.1 tesla, about…
Open Questions | Dong Yu on why ‘every chapter’ of China’s 5-year plans boils down to income
Dong Yu has been executive vice-president of the China Institute for Development Planning at Tsinghua University since 2019.…
China tests meltdown-proof tech for nuclear waste-recycling fast reactor
China has tested a new residual heat removal system that could make its next-generation, radioactive waste-recycling nuclear power…
China’s Tsinghua University helps to break 40-year-old maths cap on computer speed
Chinese computer scientists have solved a 40-year-old mathematics bottleneck, an advance that might help boost performance in hi-tech…
China’s SpinQ sees quantum computing crossing ‘usefulness’ threshold within 5 years
Quantum computing is poised to reach a tipping point in three to five years by becoming useful for…