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…
Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University
Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China…
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…
The ageing dilemma: why robots can’t save us but China-US cooperation might
A top US medical anthropologist believes the United States and China must transcend geopolitical tensions and spur a…
‘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…