Somewhere in a Guangzhou laboratory, a team of researchers has just finished mapping something that looks, from a distance, like a geopolitical fault line — except it runs through lines of code rather than continental crust. The fracture they’ve been tracing separates three distinct technological civilisations: American, Chinese and European. And according to their analysis, … Read more
The ship itself is gone. Teredo worms saw to that — centuries of boring through waterlogged timber until every plank, every rib, every trace of the hull dissolved into the seabed at the eastern mouth of the Singapore Strait. What the worms couldn’t eat was the cargo. And what a cargo it turned out to … Read more
Stroke patients grinding through repetitive arm exercises know the look: a therapist checking the clock, mentally calculating how many more patients need attention before shift end. That glance, however brief, changes the room. Healthcare systems worldwide are hemorrhaging staff faster than training programs can replace them, and researchers are asking whether machines might fill not … Read more
An email lands in your inbox. The tone is familiar, the phrasing matches your manager’s style down to the occasional comma splice. It asks you to review a document on a shared drive. You click. By the time you realize the sender wasn’t your boss, your password is already logged on a server halfway across … Read more
Teenagers who believe adolescence is about becoming responsible family members perform better academically and maintain stronger bonds with their parents, according to a year-long study of Chinese middle schoolers that challenges Western stereotypes of the teen years as inevitably turbulent. The research tracked 554 students in Shanghai through three surveys over 12 months, finding that … Read more
Scientists have created a digital gatekeeper that could prevent artificial intelligence from accidentally becoming a how-to manual for making dangerous chemicals, while still allowing legitimate research to flourish. The system, called SciGuard, acts like a sophisticated bouncer for AI models used in chemistry labs worldwide. When someone asks an AI system how to synthesize a … Read more
China is confronting an unprecedented Alzheimer’s disease challenge, with nearly 17 million people now living with Alzheimer’s and related dementias, almost one quarter of the global total. The newly released 2025 China Alzheimer Report, published in General Psychiatry, reveals sharp increases in prevalence and mortality since 1990 and outlines how new diagnostics, treatments, and public … Read more