Southern China will be among areas at risk as high nitrogen levels continue to deplete clean water supplies, researchers in Germany and Netherlands say in paper for Nature Communications.
Jiang Wenhua stabbed his supervisor Wang Yongzhen on the Fudan University campus in Shanghai in June 2021.
Capacity to turn everyday outfits into wearable electronics is ‘a leap towards embedding microcomputers into everyday clothing’, experts commenting on study published in Nature say.
Researchers in southern China uncover dramatic new evidence about paleolithic people, turning back the clock on a key moment in prehistory.
Mathematicians from Germany and Hong Kong say ‘the market is not more likely to be the origin’ when compared to other nearby landmarks, although they do not offer a hypothesis on where the outbreak started.
Pledge with China comes as North Korea carries out back-to-back missile tests within space of a week and pursues closer ties with Moscow
A long-term study of Taiwanese workers finds those who mostly sat on the job had significantly higher risk of disease and mortality.
Take a look inside Shenzhen’s ‘X-Institute’, where today’s gifted students are becoming tomorrow’s top scientists.
A joint US-China research team says their ‘powerful and affordable tool’ can also filter nanoplastic-contaminated water.
Struggle to adapt sealed fate for ‘ultimate specialist’, study published in Nature says, as co-lead author cites lesson for planet facing ‘sixth mass extinction’.
The team about the Xuelong 2 polar icebreaker will spend a year collecting data on the crustaceans, which play a vital role in the South Pole’s food chain.
Study finds previous research may have overestimated abundance of graphite when other forms of carbon are more likely to be present.
HKU scientist leading quest says the answer could lie in the memristor, an emerging memory device that mimics the brain’s storage and processing function.
A long-term conservation effort to protect green sea turtles on a remote island led to a collapse in the lizard population.
Journalism professor Shen Yang plans to detail his creation process so anyone can ‘create good fiction with AI’.
Researchers in the US found that patients hospitalised for both diseases could suffer long-term problems, with Covid proving more dangerous in most cases.
Scientists say southern Cameroon is emerging as poaching hotspot for endangered animals whose scales are prized in traditional Chinese medicine.
Plans to expand the scope of surveillance powers highlight a shift in focus to cybersecurity and the role of states like China, according to one analyst.
Iron deficiency is the most common cause of anaemia, which affects more than 40 per cent of children under five and a third of expectant mothers globally.
Researchers have found thin layers of moss and lichen can help shield heritage structures from erosion.
Archaeologists say the ancient Xiongjialing Dam is the oldest water conservancy system ever found in China.
Extreme depth blocks out most cosmic rays, making the China Jinping Undergound Lab an ideal ‘ultra-clean’ site to detect dark matter, Tsinghua physicist tells Xinhua.
Scientists warn of the ‘unprecedented’ threat of climate change on Asian water supply after historical study.
Annual Global Carbon Budget finds emissions likely to grow 1.1 per cent in 2023, partly because of China’s delayed pandemic rebound.
China, the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer, estimated to contribute around 20 per cent of the global cost.
China was found to have the highest death toll related to air pollution, followed by India. Scientists have urged countries to phase out fossil fuels ‘to improve health and save lives’.
An experimental model with the cutting-edge ceramic applied saved over 20 per cent of air-conditioning energy, say scientists who see it as an additional tool to combat global warming.
Chinese-American biochemist Wang Xiaodong says Chinese research is moving into developing innovative new medicines.
Sensor which mimics a human fingertip could help people with prostheses feel sensation again
Epicentre for deadly H5N1 virus has shifted, carried across the world by wild birds in ‘environmental disaster’, International research team led by University of Hong Kong finds.
