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1. China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returns to Earth broken and unbroken
China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returned to Earth with no astronauts inside – just metal, heat and a cracked window – touching down at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia on Monday.
2. Nipah virus outbreak in India sparks worry in China before Lunar New Year

An outbreak of the highly fatal Nipah virus in India’s eastern state of West Bengal has sparked widespread attention and public concern in China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday when millions will travel.
3. Chinese military says it is developing over 10 quantum warfare weapons
The People’s Liberation Army said more than 10 experimental quantum cyber warfare tools were “under development”, many of which were being “tested in front-line missions”, according to the official newspaper Science and Technology Daily.
4. The West cheered China’s coal-fired export ban. Then came the massive blackouts

But now, from Chile to Spain to Portugal, country after country is grappling with major blackouts. A troubling question is emerging: has this major climate victory over China backfired?
5. Chinese scientists shrink semiconductor chip into fibre as thin as human hair
Chinese scientists have created fully flexible fibre chips with circuits that are integrated and embedded within stretchable strands as thin as human hair at a density rivalling those of a home computer’s central processing unit.
6. Chinese team restores legendary Tang dynasty ‘golden’ armour from Tibetan tomb

For centuries, the splendour of the Tang gold-plated armour lived only in poetry and imagination, as none had ever been unearthed. But that changed when a restoration team at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) unveiled the only known physical example of the Tang dynasty “golden” armour found in a royal tomb on the Tibetan plateau.
7. Chinese scientists unlock possible key to dark matter after almost 90 years

Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years ago and could help detect dark matter, the universe’s invisible “glue”.


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Nipah virus alarms China, semiconductor fibre breakthrough: 7 science highlights

A fibre integrated circuit is a novel electronic device that is as thin as a strand of human hair. Photo: Handout

The uncrewed Shenzhou-20 spacecraft after touchdown at the Dongfeng landing site on Monday. Photo: Xinhua

Healthcare workers in the southern Indian state of Kerala wear protective gear as they attend to a man with symptoms of the Nipah virus in September 2023. Photo AFP

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

For centuries, the splendour of the Tang dynasty gold-plated armour lived only in poetry and imagination. Photo: Handout

Understanding dark matter would transform our knowledge of the universe. Photo: Getty Images

China’s births plunge, Trump’s Greenland pledge in Davos: SCMP’s 7 highlights

A nurse feeds a newborn at a hospital in Nanjing, China. The nation’s birthrate plunged by double digits last year. Photo: Getty Images

US President Donald Trump in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters

Saturday’s Long March-3B failure was the first in more than five years. Photo: Xinhua

Malaysians’ foreign-policy satire, Japan’s fighter jet project boost: 7 Asia highlights

This screengrab from a dashcam video shows the moment the Stoned & Co co-founder is honked at to get out of the way. Photo: Instagram/sensual.96s

A worker carries a bunch of oil palm fruit at a plantation in Slim River, Malaysia. Malaysians repeatedly referenced palm oil in online jokes responding to a recent US embassy space photo, stressing the country has palm oil rather than crude petroleum. Photo: Reuters

Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh leaves the Supreme Court in Singapore after his appeal was dismissed in December. Photo: Reuters

A JF-17 takes part in a flying display at the 2015 Paris Air Show. Photo: Reuters

China’s bid for 200,000 satellites; 2,000-year-old ‘computer’: 7 science highlights

The ancient Chinese loom may well be recognised as the world’s earliest computer, according to the China Association for Science and Technology. Photo: China Silk Museum

Several Chinese firms have applied to the International Telecommunication Union to put internet satellites in space as China and the US in a race to build megaconstellations. Illustration: Shutterstock

Wang Kejian’s team says its breakthrough could end the need for farmers to buy expensive new hybrid seeds every season. Photo: Handout

China’s advanced grid protection technology enables power grid faults to be isolated and restored within a split second, and also solves the problem of identifying micro-current faults at the hundred milliampere level. Photo: Xinhua

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From PLA developing quantum weapons to China’s dark matter breakthrough, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting


From PLA developing quantum weapons to China’s dark matter breakthrough, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.


Nipah virus alarms China, semiconductor fibre breakthrough: 7 science highlights

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}From PLA developing quantum weapons to China’s dark matter breakthrough, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting

1. China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft returns to Earth broken and unbroken

From PLA developing quantum weapons to China’s dark matter breakthrough, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting