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 plans to increase mine output in world’s largest rare earth deposit by 50%
China plans to expand production capacity of a mine in Bayan Obo in its Inner Mongolia region with…
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…
China’s optical chip breakthrough boosts AI speed 100-fold using fraction of compute power
Chinese researchers have developed a new all-optical interconnect system linking standard electronic chips, boosting AI distributed inference speeds…
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…
Chinese start-up tackles fusion energy software bottleneck with help of AI
For decades, fusion energy has sat at the edge of humanity’s clean-energy imagination – a promise of virtually…
Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips
Chinese artificial intelligence models have become increasingly competitive with their US peers, but the country’s AI hardware still…
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…
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…