Accurate grain output prediction allows China to mitigate food shortages, react to global price rises or plan storage and export measures.

Chinese scientists have created an optical clock that may lead to development of space-based versions that are smaller, ...

Chinese scientists have built a strontium optical clock so precise it would lose or gain less than one second over ...

Workers produce a digital intelligent teaching board at a factory in Lianyungang in China's eastern Jiangsu provinceSTR/AFP/Getty Images "Scientia potestas est — Knowledge is power!" That phrase was ...

The government simultaneously cut spending on business trips and meetings to free up funds for developing key sectors.

The government is set to travel to Beijing next month to hold talks with China over cooperation in science and technology. Lord Vallance, a minister in the Department for Science, Innovation and ...

Citations of Chinese research have risen because of sequencing of Covid-19 genome China has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the country’s ...

Will China win the next space race or are we heading towards conflict in space? Space is important to China, a symbol of its glowing future. “To explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and ...

Days before a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar, killing over 3,000 people and injuring thousands more, seismologists had warned in a study that regions in and around China were at an increased ...

More than 7,000 cases of the debilitating mosquito-borne disease have been reported in an unprecedented outbreak Sarah Newey Global Health Security Correspondent, in Bangkok Sarah Newey is a Global ...