Hong Kong should capitalise on the opportunities arising from US-China tensions to attract more talent to its academic and tech sectors, heads of the city’s top medical schools have said, ahead of a visit to the world’s largest biotechnology event in Boston. Representatives from the medical faculties of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and…
Fashion giant Forever 21, known for its stylish clothes at a budget price, has filed for bankruptcy and will close all store locations, including two in Austin and one in San Marcos. The Los Angeles-based company, which sells trendy fast fashion and accessories for women, men, and children, announced its bankruptcy in a statement on…
(CNN) — Air pollution levels keep getting worse for more people in the US, according to a new report, and experts say the Trump administration’s proposed deregulation plans will make it even harder for people to get clean air. Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution,…
Teshima Art Museum, Japan Go for: the biophilic design A drop of water. This is the inspiration—simple and pure, escapist and soul-soothing—behind the Teshima Art Museum in Japan. Its name is deceptive; forget paintings and toilet queues. Instead, the entire structure is an ultra-minimalist spatial expression of a droplet. The concrete structure lies on a…
Drastic shifts in US scientific research policy and funding since President Donald Trump’s return to power could trigger a mass exodus of scientific talent, with three-quarters of respondents to a recent poll indicating they were considering leaving the United States. The survey by British scientific journal Nature carried out earlier this month found that 1,200…
In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese researchers when their names are presented solely in pinyin and might be shared by other researchers whose names are spelled differently in Chinese characters. Chinese scientists told the Post that publishing under just their pinyin name – in English-language journals in which Mandarin is…
The global race for quantum supremacy has intensified, with research teams from China and the United States announcing major achievements in this week’s edition of the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature. While Peking University researchers unveiled the world’s first large-scale quantum entanglement on an optical chip, a Microsoft team claimed to have created topological qubits –…
More leading American scientists have had papers retracted than the number of Chinese, British, Japanese and German researchers combined, according to a study published in PLOS Biology on January 30. Among scientists included in the Stanford Elsevier career-long list of the world’s top 2 per cent of scientists last year, some 2,322 US-affiliated elite researchers…
Peculiar electromagnetic bursts of energy known as “chorus waves” have been detected far from our planet for the first time by a China-led team of scientists, whose findings have raised new concerns about the risks for spacecraft and astronauts. The fluctuations originated about 165,000km (100,000 miles) from Earth – three times as far as any…
China has overtaken the United States for the first time in the number of its high-level science and technology experts, according to a new report. Analysing data for the five years from 2020 to 2024, the report also shows that the number of top scientists in China has risen, while the number in the US…