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China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 deserts
By Sascha Pare published
Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall."

Male human heads found in a 'skull pit' in an ancient Chinese city hint at sex-specific sacrifice rituals
By Kristina Killgrove published
A genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in contrast to previous assumptions.

Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified — and their descendants still live there today
By Tom Metcalfe published
People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.

China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
By Sascha Pare published
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.

Marooned no more! Stranded Chinese astronauts finally have a way home following launch of unmanned 'lifeboat'
By Harry Baker published
China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck without a return capsule for over a week.

Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleagues
By Harry Baker published
The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of returning home.

'Stranded' astronauts aboard Chinese space station are preparing to come home — but no date has been announced
By Ben Turner published
Three astronauts remain stuck on China's Tiangong space station after errant debris struck their return capsule last week. But their return vessel has already arrived, meaning a flight home will come sooner rather than later.

Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule
By Harry Baker published
Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.

China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs
By Owen Hughes published
Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.

Charred piece of secretive Chinese rocket found still smoldering in the Australian outback
By Harry Baker published
Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead Chinese rocket. The wreckage likely crashed just before it was found.
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