6 h. ago As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted

China and the United States are locked in a contest for technological supremacy. While it’s impossible to predict the ultimate winner and loser, this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics may serve as a useful guide to where the two rivals are heading. The US is currently still ahead when it comes to science and technology. But when it comes to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education, China has a clear edge, which is likely to grow even larger in the coming...

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6 h. ago As I See It | As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted

As I See It | As Nobel laureates show, the US can’t take tech lead over China for granted  South China Morning Post

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4 d. ago Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103

Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103  Malay Mail

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5 d. ago Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after cuts to US$8 million in grants

A top biomedical scientist has left the United States for China following cuts to US$8.3 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that funded his research projects. After studying and working in the US for 22 years, Hu “Tony” Ye, who held the prestigious chair professor position at Tulane University in New Orleans, left to take on the role of founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Hu has long focused on the rapid...

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5 d. ago Top scientist Hu Ye quits US for China after giving up millions in funding

A top biomedical scientist has left the United States for China after giving up millions of dollars in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). After studying and working in the US for 22 years, Hu “Tony” Ye, who held the prestigious chair professor position at Tulane University in New Orleans, left to take on the role of founding dean at the new school of biomedical engineering at his alma mater, Tsinghua University. Hu has long focused on the rapid detection of viruses,...

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7 d. ago China court grants woman divorce 6 years after husband pushed her off Thai cliff

A court in China has granted the divorce application of a woman who survived after being pushed off a cliff in Thailand by her husband six years ago, sparking massive cheers on social media. Wang Nan, 38, better known online as Wang Nuannuan, suffered severe injuries after Yu Xiaodong pushed her off a 34-metre-high cliff while they were on holiday in a national park in Thailand in June 2019. She was pregnant for three months at the time and thus lost her unborn child in the autumn. Yu, who...

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8 d. ago Venezuela’s Nobel laureate urges Maduro to cede power peacefully

Nicolas Maduro’s time is up but he can still leave power peacefully, Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said in an interview from hiding on Monday. Offering a barbed olive branch to Venezuela’s long-lasting leader, 58-year-old Machado said President Maduro could get personal guarantees if he were to cede power. “Maduro currently has the opportunity to move toward a peaceful transition,” the opposition figurehead told Agence France-Presse as a flotilla of US warships...

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1 week ago China hits back at Trump’s port fees with reciprocal charges for US ships

China will levy phased fees on US-linked vessels calling at its ports starting next Tuesday, a retaliatory action set to take effect the same day as similar charges that were announced in April by the Office of the United States Trade Representative. Having been granted approval by the State Council, China’s cabinet, Beijing will apply the fees to the following groups of vessels: those owned or operated by US enterprises, organisations and individuals; those whose owners or operators are under...

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1 week ago As China Opens The World's Tallest Bridge, Grant Cardone Asks, 'When's The Last Time America Built Anything Like This?'

As China Opens The World's Tallest Bridge, Grant Cardone Asks, 'When's The Last Time America Built Anything Like This?'  Yahoo Finance

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1 week ago Unfair funding is holding back science in China. Can Beijing fix it?

As China drafts its 15th five-year plan – the next entry in a line of expansive blueprints that have set the tone for the country’s development over more than seven decades – we explore why achieving equitable funding distribution is important for Beijing to break free from Western sci-tech containment and lead the world. For more stories in this series, click here. Yusufu Aibibula, a theoretical physicist from Xinjiang University in China’s west, decided to change careers to raising chickens...

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1 week ago Trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for new form of molecular architecture

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks that dates back to 1989. The Nobel Committee said that the three laureates “developed a new form of molecular architecture.” “They have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow,” the committee said. Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,...

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2 w. ago Beijing’s new ‘Made in China’ standards give foreign firms ‘national treatment’

Beijing’s recent move to clarify standards for “domestically made products” in government procurement is designed to shore up the confidence of foreign companies operating in the country, according to an analyst. Effective January 1, “Made in China” goods will be granted a 20 per cent price preference over foreign-made goods in bidding for government contracts, according to a notice released by the State Council on Tuesday. Companies with different ownerships – state-owned, private or foreign –...

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