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After Britain became the first country to grant emergency approval on Wednesday to a coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the US could be the next country to authorise its use. The US...
Google’s artificial intelligence unit took a giant step to predict the structure of proteins, potentially decoding a problem that has been described as akin to mapping the genome. DeepMind Technologie...
As Beijing doubles down in its contest with the US for technological leadership, it is looking to Chinese industrial champions to drive the country’s innovation programme – and even basic research in ...
China now leads the world in artificial intelligence patent applications, surpassing the United States for the first time, a development seen bolstering the country’s position as the second-largest ma...
China’s first lunar mission to bring samples back to Earth faces new technical challenges and much could go wrong, according to Chinese space authorities. In the first mission of its kind by any count...
With Elon Musk’s SpaceX shuttling Nasa astronauts to the International Space Station and Virgin Galactic planning to begin commercial flights next year, space has never been more accessible. For the b...
In a laboratory in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), researchers study a swinging metal pole designed to mimic the movement of human arms. Using a highly compact generator containing fewer t...
Semiconductors, also known as microchips, are silicon-based devices made up of hundreds of millions, and in some cases billions, of transistors, which act as tiny “switches” to control the movement of...
From Monday, senior Chinese officials are set to converge on Beijing for a key meeting to thrash out detailed five-year targets for economic growth, and long-term development goals for 2035. The impor...
Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates changes in the workplace likely to exaggerate inequalities, a World E...
Toshiba Corp said on Monday it aims to generate US$3 billion in revenue from its advanced cryptographic technology for data protection by 2030, as the sprawling Japanese conglomerate scrambles to find...
China’s efforts to become carbon neutral by 2060 are expected to receive a boost from a pair of scientific research projects involving methanol, an alternative biofuel for internal combustion and othe...
When 29-year-old Nora Xu flew to the United States six years ago, she was hoping to pursue a stable life in the country by studying computer science, like millions of bright Chinese students before he...
The global PC market has posted back-to-back quarterly double digit growth rates as corporations and schools continue to invest in the transition to remote working and learning amid second and third w...
Hello, this is Bien Perez from the South China Morning Post’s Technology desk, with a wrap of our leading stories this week. Amid rising tensions with Washington, Beijing has had to downplay some of t...
Novoheart Holdings, the inventor of artificial “mini-hearts” co-founded by a Hong Kong scientist, is expanding its research and manufacturing budget in the region to commercialise a technology that ca...
Hutchison China MediTech (Chi-Med), whose stock has surged 70 per cent in London over the past six months, expects to receive approvals to sell its endocrine and lung cancer drugs in China by June nex...
A leading Chinese artificial intelligence researcher in the US has returned to China as Beijing strives to become a global leader in the field. Professor Zhu Songchun, an award-winning expert in compu...
China’s fragmented outsourced drug discovery services market will see further consolidation as companies seek to grab market share amid a biotechnology boom. The market, dotted with companies with spe...
Over the past year, President Xi Jinping has on multiple occasions described China’s reliance on imported technology with the term Qia Bozi, which translates to being strangled by an adversary. And no...