First AI-designed ‘universal vaccine’ tested in humans
A vaccine targeting a broad range of viruses that was designed using artificial intelligence had a “modest” effect on im...
Astronauts take shelter as air leaks worsen on International Space Station
A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for eva...
Hong Kong man arrested for allegedly groping schoolgirl on bus
Hong Kong police have arrested a 65-year-old man in connection with a suspected indecent assault case in Mong Kok hours ...
Chinese black hole-hunting scientist Dai Liang quits US for Shanghai post
A physicist who was awarded a fellowship reserved for the “brightest young scientists” in the US and Canada for his work...
China woman dances with eye patch and mask after losing partial jaw, vision in one eye to cancer
A 24-year-old Chinese woman keeps managing to shine on stage despite wearing a patch and a mask after she lost an eye an...
China unveils world’s first superfast quantum memory, paving way for practical computing
Chinese scientists have created the world’s first superfast memory for quantum computers, solving a critical data-readin...
Hong Kong school ordered to submit report after national flag hung upside down
Hong Kong education authorities have ordered a primary school to submit a report after a national flag was found hanging...
China’s Tongji University punishes top cancer researcher Wang Ping for misconduct
A top Chinese university has taken disciplinary action against its leading cancer researcher after finding academic misc...
Passengers on hantavirus-stricken ship sway between fear and boredom
It was billed as an Atlantic odyssey to some of the most remote islands in the world.Instead, the cruise on the hantavir...
Bus and oil tanker collide in Indonesia, killing at least 16 people
A passenger bus collided head-on with a fuel tanker truck on a highway on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, killi...
27 held, HK$3.3m fuel seized as Hong Kong cracks down on illegal sales by triads
Hong Kong authorities have arrested 27 people and seized more than 21,000 litres of illicit fuel worth about HK$3.3 mill...
China’s new marine buoy says goodbye to classic Western design used since WWII
A giant orange disc settled into the waters off Rongcheng in eastern China’s Shandong province, marking the deployment o...
China woman loses 21kg after friend’s idea that being thinner makes her resemble famous actress
A woman in eastern China shed 21.5kg in just four months because her best friend told her she would look like the famous...
AI ecosystems in China and US grow apart amid tech war
China and the United States are taking divergent paths to developing artificial intelligence (AI), putting their technol...
Why more Rohingya risk sea escapes to Malaysia, Indonesia: ‘some make it, some die’
Rohingya refugee Rahila Begum spent two days adrift in the Andaman Sea this month, clinging to a wooden shard after her...
China bets on RISC-V in global AI race
Say “open source” and “China” and most people will think of its world-conquering artificial intelligence (AI) large lang...
Singer D4vd charged with murder of teenage girl found decomposed in his car
US singer D4vd has been charged with murder in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was last known to be alive nearly a y...
Mother, 6 children killed in explosion and fire at rural Pennsylvania home
An Amish woman and her six children ranging in age from three to 11 were killed in a swift-moving house fire after an ex...
Teen driving Tesla arrested after knocking second vehicle through storefront
Hong Kong police have arrested a 16-year-old garage worker for allegedly driving without a licence after he lost control...