In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

If China finally eclipses the United States as the world’s preeminent scientific superpower, there won’t be an official announcement. Neither will there necessarily be a dramatic Promethean ...

At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed a monkey to seemingly control a robotic arm just by thinking about it. In a video ...

China’s scientific collaboration with other countries has declined since the pandemic, driven by falling partnerships with the United States, an analysis shows. Scientists have been warning that ...

In the atrium of a research building at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing is a wall of patents. Around five metres wide and two storeys high, the wall displays 192 certificates, ...

Charles Lieber leads China's i-BRAIN lab with advanced resources and state funding Lab is recruiting researchers for studies on monkeys as models for human brain-computer interfaces Case highlights ...

Stressing science education, China is outpacing other countries in research fields like battery chemistry, crucial to its lead in electric vehicles. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Changsha, Beijing ...

Editor’s note: On December 16th GuoWang, a satellite constellation backed by China’s central government, launched its first batch of ten satellites. It would be the country’s second competitor for ...