In 2022, USTC researchers led by quantum physicist Pan Jianwei demonstrated the proof of principle by achieving a ...

Since February this year, a quiet but significant breakthrough unfolded in several of Beijing’s top neurosurgical hospitals. Working ...

9. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released by 160 international scientists, warns thatEarth has reached its first climate tipping point, with rising temperatures threatening coral reefs.

Huge advancement allows paralysed man to work, order takeaway delivery via robotic dogs and control smart wheelchairs with ...

China is reportedly working to cognitively merge humans with machines as part of its ongoing efforts to compete in the artificial intelligence race. The communist country is using brain-computer ...

Chinese team is first outside the US to cross key threshold that determines whether practical quantum computers can work ...

In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

Zhu Xiaobo (first from left), professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and chief scientist of the "Zu ...

A decade ago Nature, a scientific publisher, began tallying the contributions made by researchers at different institutions to papers published across a set of 145 respected journals. When the first ...

Jacob Dreyer is an editor for business, economics, politics and law at Palgrave (a subsidiary of Springer Nature), based in Shanghai, China. The views expressed here are his own. An increasing number ...