The Chinese government has welcomed the agreement reached by Japan and South Korea on Japan's wartime sexual slavery of Korean women during World War II, calling on Japan to deal with historical issues in a responsible way. Chinese ...
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It's been announced a group of Chinese scientists are going to be joining an expert panel later this year to lay out guidelines for a controversial new procedure connected to human genome research. The Chinese Academy of Sciences will ...
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A Chinese team has used a specialized 3D printer to produce tiny sections of the liver that could eventually be used a form a full artificial version of the organ, it announced on Friday. The hepatic lobules, of which there are around a ...
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The 2015 Xingyun (Nebula) Award for Global Chinese Science Fiction was announced Sunday in Chengdu, with the best achievement prize awarded to Liu Cixin, the first Asian writer to win "Best Novel" at the 2015 Hugo Award. Liu won the Hugo ...
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Photo provided by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tooth fossils found in Daoxian county in central China's Hunan Province. These tooth fossils indicate the early ...
It's been about half a year since the idea of Internet Plus Strategy was raised by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The strategy is an action plan to integrate the mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and the Internet of Things with modern ...
China and Finland have set up a fund that will pool money from Chinese and Finnish enterprises to invest in innovative startups and joint tech projects. The 40-million-euro fund, agreed at a forum in Beijing technology hub Zhongguancun on ...
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Young Masamba Issa has just clocked 13 years. The girl who almost lost her battle against malaria in 2008, is now a healthy five feet two inches tall form two student at Boko secondary school in Dar es Salaam. "I had given up when medical ...
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Chinese researchers on Monday announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of adzuki bean, an important source of starch, digestible protein, mineral elements and vitamins for at least a billion people worldwide. "Adzuki bean ...
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A vaccine against the Ebola virus developed by Chinese scientists has undergone clinical trials in Sierra Leone. The public relations officer at the Ministry of Health Abbas Kamara says there have been no "adverse reports and side ...
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A new report in the scientific journal "Nature" is generating new discussions among researchers about which paths modern humans took out of Africa to help populate the rest of the world. The report notes Chinese research done on 47 ...
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Chinese icebreaker "Xuelong," meaning Snow Dragon in English, is scheduled to set off on Saturday from Shanghai for the country's 32nd scientific expedition to Antarctica. The icebreaker, carrying a 277-member expedition team, will cover ...
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A quadruped robot in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing walked its way on to the pages of the Guinness World Records book on Sunday. "Xingzhe No. 1" was developed by Li Qingdu, a professor with the college of automation under the ...
A Chinese biotechnological company announced on Sunday it has developed the world's first 3D blood vessel bio-printer, which makes it possible to produce personalized functional organs. Sichuan Revotek Co., Ltd. based in Chengdu, capital ...
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The world's fastest two-seat, pure-electric sports car is to be delivered to a customer in China within weeks, the vehicle's builder revealed Friday. The lucky owner will be able to reach 100 km/h from idle in just 3.9 seconds and hit a ...