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Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsuleThree 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.
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China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsResearchers 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.
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Charred piece of secretive Chinese rocket found still smoldering in the Australian outbackExperts 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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5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups made from human bones discovered in ChinaArchaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material.
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Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstableEarth from space A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.
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China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 — but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.
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When China makes a climate pledge, the world should listenOpinion Beijing has a track record of only promising what it plans to deliver. But too often the world's attention is elsewhere.
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'If there is a space race, China's already winning it': NASA unlikely to bring Mars samples back to Earth before China does, experts say"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades."
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1 million-year-old skull from China holds clues to the origins of Neanderthals, Denisovans and humansReconstruction of a 1 million-year-old skull shows that early human groups split and diversified quickly.
