From Chinese students not opting for US universities to Japan’s workers being reluctant to take paid vacations, here are few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

The Trident project will be up to 10,000 times more powerful than the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, researchers said.

World’s first fully system-integrated memristor chip could make artificial intelligence smarter and up to 75 times more efficient, researchers say.

Australian phase 2 clinical trial of Sailuotong shows memory and executive function improvements in people with mild cognitive impairment.

Paper says JiuZhang 3 is a million times faster than its predecessor and light years ahead of the world’s fastest supercomputer.

Settlements in flood zones more than doubled worldwide in the three decades to 2015, with the biggest expansion in China.

More students are opting to stay home, and not pursue further studies at international universities.

Life scientists at Westlake University have isolated gene behind chlorophyll variety essential to light absorption in certain algae, Science article says, with reviewer hailing finding of ‘crucial’ enzyme.

Yin Hejun takes over as party secretary from Wang Zhigang, who remains the minister.

Scientists confirm the discovery of new type of niobium ore in world’s largest rare earth deposit.

Ministry of State Security says a new round of US ‘sanctions and suppression policies’ could be brewing after Huawei’s smartphone success.

Senior Chinese space scientist’s slide presentation at global astronautical congress in Baku leaves out Russian role in joint ILRS space mission.

It will take up to a decade for China to catch up with global developments in the technology, which is the foundation of Covid-19 vaccines, scientist says.

Researchers say fruits like oranges and lemons emerged in south-central China millions of years ago.

From an escalating war of narratives between China and the US to Hong Kong’s unprecedented pension fund losses, here are few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

The multi-country Polar-2 mission aims to learn more about the most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang.

Team looked to the underwater structures built by sandcastle worms, which secrete a glue that binds together sand and shell pieces.

The 2028 mission could carry up to 200kg of equipment from other countries, more than 10 times the payload carried on next year’s Chang’e 6 mission.

A global evaluation of 8,000 species shows 2 out of every 5 amphibians ‘are still in trouble’ from habitat loss, climate change.

Researchers in China and US find intense tropical cyclones hit about two weeks earlier on average than in 1980s because of rising sea temperatures, increasing risk that storms will coincide with rainy season to cause ‘more destructive’ damage.

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”, used in LED TVs, solar panels and to guide surgeons while removing cancer tissue.

The Nobel Physics Prize winners were honoured for experiments that gave humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons in atoms and molecules.

International astronautics academy honours ‘outstanding contributions to human lunar and deep space exploration’.

Inability to adapt to a zoo risks causing pandas physical and behavioural symptoms similar to human jet lag, metabolism issues or seasonal affective disorder.

Drew Weismann and Katalin Kariko were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work that paved the way for the development of mRNA vaccines used to fight Covid-19.

Home-grown Haijing system seeks out offshore oil reserves and can detect ocean earthquakes, state broadcaster says.

Using data from radio telescopes around the world, researchers found that a black hole in Galaxy M87 had tilted