PFAS, widely used due to resistance to oil, water and heat, has been restricted or banned around the world but use of substitutes is hard to track.
Only 1 per cent of large-cap Hong Kong-listed firms in the MSCI AC Asia-Pacific IMI index have set greenhouse gas reduction targets considered ‘fully’ credible, less than the regional average.
Game development competition for primary students signals a shift in how tech education is reaching China’s vast rural regions.
China’s domestically developed Lansi pig, a new breed with several advantages over Western imports, has received commercial approval – and could be an asset in the country’s efforts to self-source its livestock.
A Harvard University professor, famed for his NAD anti-ageing therapy, has resigned from a prominent scientific academy.
Mission scientist Pei Zhaoyu struggles to form a sentence during a live broadcast, sending patriotic doubters of the 1969 moonwalk into overdrive.
A long-theorised but never-seen-before particle known as a glueball may have just been discovered by physicists.
‘Harbin Institute of Technology is a talent base for China’s nuclear industry,’ according to Putin.
Improvements in treatment method deliver cancer-killing drugs to tumour cells while avoiding healthy tissue.
Fully autonomous system ‘can perform high-quality ultrasound, close to manual scans obtained by clinicians’, team says in Nature Communications paper.
American agency accuses disease ecologist of taking part in ‘improper conduct’ as head of group that collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The BBM combines multiple functions that can be adaptively used in extremely challenging geological conditions, CRSIC said.
Peer-reviewed paper recommends tunnelling under three artificial islands in the disputed Spratly chain to ease crowding.
Scientists use nanoparticles to supercharge the mechanical properties of aluminium alloys.
Chinese satnav industry hits US$74 billion output, has 20,000 market entities and employs nearly 1 million people: report.
As the world continues to deal with Covid-19, scientists are already getting ready to face the next deadly pathogen.
It is an indisputable fact that there’s nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day. Now it can be backed up with science.
Breakthrough will help researchers better understand the origin and evolution of magnetism in the universe.
Yao Yang from Peking University says a developed, capitalist market and openness to immigrants helped the United States lead the way over the past century.
Mainland China will become the largest single market for Mirxes’ core product, a stomach cancer detection kit that was key to the company’s development, according to Zhou Lihan, its CEO and co-founder.
British professor Jiangzhou Wang tells a conference in Beijing that he is disappointed with 5G’s failure.