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Nasa’s latest moon rover appears to borrow from the design of a Chinese robot on Mars, according to scientists familiar with the projects – a twist in a space rivalry [...]

China’s large fleet of conventional submarines could soon be ­powered by lithium-ion batteries as a result of advances in the country’s world-leading electric car industry, according to a Chinese navy [...]

A nuclear blast in near space could create a radioactive cloud over an area as big as New York state, crippling or destroying satellites in near-Earth orbit, according to a [...]

A senior data scientist who worked for Nasa for more than 20 years has found a job at a top university in Shanghai, according to the institution’s website. Li Zhijin [...]

A research team in Shanghai says it has developed a new pump-jet propulsion system that can give submarines a higher thrust while reducing noisy vibrations by more than 90 per [...]

People’s Liberation Army researchers say China’s aircraft carriers will be able to use hypersonic weapons thanks to a breakthrough in logistics technology that simplifies and speeds up repair and maintenance [...]

China has used new satellite ­technology to obtain the earliest accurate estimate about the ­damage to the Nord Stream ­pipeline, according to researchers involved in the project. The Russian-built pipelines [...]

Researchers for the first time have shared details about the technology that made China the first country to put its national flag on Mars, forcing former US president Donald Trump [...]

Researchers in Sichuan say they have developed the world’s most advanced system for testing an aircraft’s ability to unload a weapon or small spacecraft at extremely fast speeds, allowing them [...]

Chinese scientists say they expect to slash the costs of commercial hypersonic travel with an air-breathing engine powered by a combination of ethylene and coal powder. In one ground test, [...]

Researchers say they have developed and tested in the South China Sea underwater communication technology that would allow submarines and drones to maintain contact over an area of more than [...]

The central government has approved construction of the world’s largest pulsed-power plant with plans to generate nuclear fusion energy by 2028, according to the top nuclear weapons scientist leading the [...]

China is developing a supersonic anti-ship missile that will be able to travel further and faster than any traditional torpedo, according to researchers involved in the project. The five-metre missile [...]

The world’s largest free-piston driven shock tunnel is now up and running in southwestern China, allowing low-cost, high-quality wind tunnel experiments in hypersonic research, according to scientists involved in the [...]

Chinese marine researchers say they have discovered three ancient merchant ships in an unprecedented archaeological sweep of the contested South China Sea. The wrecks were found in the vast waterway [...]

A Beijing space research institute tested a new rocket engine that is twice as powerful as its American competitor in the race to put the next astronaut on the moon, [...]

Scientists have found an effective solution to reduce the discomfort that could be experienced by some passengers on the country’s fastest ever high-speed trains. The country’s fastest trains now have [...]

Scientists in Beijing claim they have achieved “highly reliable” ground communications during hypersonic weapon test flights. The system could allow ground control to stay in constant contact with a hypersonic [...]

A team of scientists in Beijing has announced they have achieved a complete recombination of the chromosomes of a mouse, a genetic engineering breakthrough that could pave the way for [...]

Researchers have developed a plasma device that can ­significantly improve the ­aerodynamic performance of stealth bombers. The device is a strip of thin membrane covering the front area of a [...]

Defence industry engineers in southwestern China have built a small infrared search-and-track system that can pick up the heat signature of a fast-moving aircraft from an unusually long distance, the [...]

Scientists tamed blooming algae in one of China’s largest lakes this summer by using new technology to “sterilise” it, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s official newspaper has reported. Lake [...]

Scientists in western China have developed an anti-stealth radar so small it could be quietly and easily set up almost anywhere, including on a rooftop, according to the research team [...]

Scientists who observed accelerated growth of mouse neurons exposed to brief, low-dose radiation from terahertz waves say their findings have implications for future communication devices. Radio waves in the terahertz [...]

China has activated the world’s most powerful magnet for scientific research at a laboratory in the southeastern city of Hefei, in Anhui province. The magnetic field facility is not much [...]

China has launched the world’s first suspended maglev line built with permanent magnets that can keep a “sky train” afloat forever – even without a power supply. The 800-metre experimental [...]

A team of archaeologists may have found what could be the portrait of a king carved into stone at the foot of a huge prehistoric pyramid in northwest China. They [...]

A research team from eastern China has built and tested a ­prototype submarine drone that can fly in the air at high speed. The unmanned vessel can carry out a [...]

A design system for warships is drawing on computing resources across the country, by connecting to a platform used as an internet for smart vehicles, according to a research team. [...]

The power of nature has created an unprecedented problem for engineers building a railway in the nation’s southwest after shifting tectonic plates squeezed sections of a tunnel. Some completed sections [...]

China’s state-owned power grid company launched the nation’s most powerful AI for electricity distribution on Tuesday, ­according to Science and Technology Daily. Following a community ­blackout it usually takes six [...]

Beijing launched a new quantum satellite yesterday that could be a first step towards establishing an ultra-secure communications network with global coverage. It was one of six satellites launched around [...]

China has launched a new tunnelling project to send water from the Three Gorges Dam to Beijing as part of a massive infrastructure plan to boost food production and the [...]

Beijing may extend the planetary defence system it is constructing in China to the moon and beyond to protect the Earth from asteroid strikes that could potentially wipe out a [...]

Researchers in Beijing say they have found a gene in rice that can significantly increase yield and reduce the growth period, a ­discovery that could be a step towards improving [...]

A Beijing research team says it has completed the conceptual design for a small, low-cost nuclear reactor that would be able to drive a swarm of torpedoes across the Pacific [...]

Three titan arum, or “corpse flower” plants, that blossomed in the China National Botanical Garden in Beijing this month offered the first opportunity to observe the simultaneous ­blooming of these [...]

A record-breaking bridge in the country’s southwest passed a demanding load test yesterday, clearing the way for faster travel along a belt and road corridor that would facilitate links to [...]