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Ling Xin
Reporter, China
Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio. She mainly covers physics, astronomy and space. Her writing has appeared in Science, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review and other English and Chinese outlets. She was a visiting journalist at Science magazine in Washington, and has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Ling Xin is a science journalist based in Ohio. She mainly covers physics, astronomy and space. Her writing has appeared in Science, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review and other English and Chinese outlets. She was a visiting journalist at Science magazine in Washington, and has a master's degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Areas of Expertise:
Science journalismLanguages Spoken:
English, Mandarin
SpaceX views orbital computing as a solution to Earth’s constraints, but China hopes to process data at the source to optimise efficiency.
Two former Peking University classmates now stand together on the world’s highest stage for mathematicians.
Facility in country’s south will help scientists answer some of the biggest questions in nuclear physics, according to its chief designer.
Spacecraft to hit at 9km/s, equivalent to over 26 times the speed of sound near sea level and nearly 50 per cent faster than Nasa’s mission.
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It’s an unconventional approach that has sparked debate over how it stacks up against America’s landing-leg system.
Promising researcher’s family and friends still await police report, which could provide critical details about events leading to his death.
Soon after launch, the first stage of the rocket returned vertically and was recovered via a sea platform, state media says.
Stanford team that includes two Chinese among its main developers says system can turn a plain-language request into an entire research workflow.
Yaghi hopes to lead team using AI to create materials to tackle global challenges such as carbon neutrality and water shortages.
Forced to develop the technology from scratch, a Chinese team says it achieved 14 hours of continuous operation in space.
Almost a century and a half has passed since the notorious Chinese Exclusion Act, but anti-Asian prejudice is still rife.
A month after launch, the fishermen who sank 150 million yuan into the project have yet to secure their first client.
At less than 9mm, Jennie’s bumblebee goby is the smallest of its genus and the first to be found in China.
Built in Shenzhen, it regained the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for China since Sunway TaihuLight’s achievement in 2017.
The team at Xidian University can zap power 100 metres through the air. But their dream is to send their hardware into orbit.
Constellation now has 201 satellites in orbit but the company is said to be under pressure to ramp up launches.
Telescopes at the remote site are set to surpass Hawaii’s Mauna Kea in light-gathering power by the mid-2030s, scientists say.
Chinese researcher says the files released by US government contain images and video but lack the hard data needed for further research.
Is the world’s most powerful rocket hitting a wall similar to the engineering limitations experienced decades ago by the Soviet N1?
Researchers build system that can send energy to multiple moving targets, taking another step towards dream of an orbiting power station.
Expected lunar impact however said to underscore critical lack of debris management rules as US, Chinese and private moon activity ramps up.
Mainland China accounted for 44 per cent of the top 50 institutions contributing to the ICLR in Rio de Janeiro, according to analysis.
Wang Ping has been fired as dean of life sciences school, demoted by two ranks, and issued a 24-month ban on promotions, funding and awards.
Lingsheng or LineShine, built from home-grown CPUs, is designed to surpass America’s El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Petition signed by 2,300 scholars from 80 countries urges ‘World Cup’ to be moved due to American policies towards foreign academics.
Plans are under way to add three more modules to the Chinese facility but no timeline has been released to complete the work.
The 77-year-old has taken up a full-time role as a professor with one of the leading teaching hospitals in the country’s northeast.
Advocacy group holds vigil for scientist who took his own life after being questioned by US federal agents.
Shenyang team focuses on how to produce strong structural parts efficiently, and how to connect them reliably.
