China

Project Dragonfly aims to help the Chinese government build a censored search engine that would “blacklist” information that officials don’t like.

In a breakthrough for nuclear fusion research, scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor have produced temperatures necessary for nuclear fusion on Earth.

Protected animals are feared to be headed for the black market.

China’s state-run news agency and the search engine company Sogou have developed an artificially intelligent news anchor that can read the news “tirelessly” 24 hours a day.

Pay attention to the decisions made by the provinces.

A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.

America continues to tread water in healthcare and education while other countries have enacted reforms to great effect.

American farmers are expected to traverse a rocky financial road in the coming months.

The perspective on this is quite novel.

Have you been feeling like democracy is in trouble lately? According to this report, you’re right. 

Pictures of the secretive and extremely high-powered weapon have appeared on Chinese social media. 

China’s expanding middle class is changing the world. The results are a global recycling dilemma.

The most influential contemporary scientists and their accomplishments.

The idea is to flood the markets and drive prices down. Contrary to what you may think, a rhino horn is not made of bone but of keratin – the material found in nails and hair.

A reappraisal of the Chinese Dali skull suggest a more prominent role for China in early human history.

North Korea has a long history of making bellicose threats that defy global norms. So does that mean the country’s leaders are irrational, and will act irrationally?

Historian Alfred McCoy explains why American power is coming to an end and lays out his vision for the new global order.

Chinese scientists accomplish the feat of teleporting a photon to a satellite hundreds of miles above Earth.

Quartz has analyzed 100,000 drawings to see if there are cultural differences in the way people draw basic shapes.

Everything is cheap and nobody has jobs. Welcome to the future. President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas fills us in on how we got here.

The world’s most populated country has had its fair share of great minds. Here, we take a quick look at ten thinkers you might not have thought about. 

Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery, or a breach of intellectual property? That depends which continent you’re on, says Gish Jen.

The biologists who revealed why zebras have black-and-white stripes now also have a theory on the black-and-white fur of giant pandas.

What if the vision wasn’t just to have politicians who are science literate, but actual scientists running the joint – would it be any better than it is now?

Jeffrey Sachs, from the Rust Belt himself, shares his thoughts on Trump’s economic plans and shares some red flags to watch for as new policy proposals surface.

While pejorative stereotypes have been properly cast aside, the question remains whether there is a fundamental difference between how Eastern and Western societies are configured.

It takes four dollars of debt to create a single dollar of GDP growth in China. For context, at the peak of the GFC in 2008 it was taking three dollars of debt to create a dollar of GDP growth in the U.S. China has received the kiss of debt, says Ruchir Sharma.

A 99-million-year-old dinosaur tail with feathers was examined in a new study by an international team of researchers.

Surveys reveal the least religious, most atheistic population centers in the world.

China is is upsetting many of its people by forcibly exhuming the dead to clear space for development.