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1. Chinese military lab creates mosquito-sized microdrone for covert operations
A robotics laboratory at the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) in central China鈥檚 Hunan province has developed a mosquito-sized drone for covert military operations.
2. China can鈥檛 buy Nvidia鈥檚 RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast
Chinese researchers have developed the first highly parallel optical computing integrated chip, named 鈥淢eteor-1鈥, setting a milestone for using light to perform an enormous number of operations at the same time, the scientists say.
3. Chinese engineers bring artillery-launched drones from concept to life
After 12 years of technical hurdles and scepticism, China has successfully tested artillery-launched drones capable of surviving the crushing load in a 155mm (6 inches) cannon shell.
4. Maths star Joshua Zahl leaves Canada for China after solving century-old puzzle
China has secured a major academic coup with the recruitment of mathematics luminary Joshua Zahl, recently celebrated for solving the more than 100-year-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture.
5. China鈥檚 Feitian 2 hypersonic vehicle shows critical capabilities in test flight
A Chinese university has successfully flown its Feitian 2 hypersonic vehicle at a site in northwestern China, according to an announcement on the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) website.
6. Why is China building AI centres on the roof of the world?
Yajiang-1, a cutting-edge computing centre perched in the cradle of Tibetan civilisation, is up and running as part of China鈥檚 plan to transform the so-called roof of the world into a strategic frontier for sustainable supercomputing.
7. How does long-term exercise slow ageing? Chinese scientists have an answer
A team of Chinese scientists has found that betaine 鈥 a compound naturally occurring in the kidneys during long-term exercise 鈥 can slow down the ageing process.