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Why is China drilling a hole more than 10,000 metres deep?

An oil company in China has started drilling a hole that would be the deepest in the country and among the deepest in the world

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China reclaims pandas from US zoos – is the panda politics era over?

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Security personnel keep watch outside Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization (WHO) team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in??Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Thomas Peter - RC2TKL9J8J25

Health

US agency says covid-19 may have leaked from lab – here's what to know

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Aerial view of tractor in wheat field harvesting straw for biomass power generation

Environment

China can make staple crops carbon-negative by adding biochar to soil

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US sailors recovering the Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon

Technology

Chinese spy balloon: Everything we know after US recovers wreckage

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A Chinese spy balloon drifting to the ocean after being shot down

Technology

Suspected Chinese 'spy balloon' shot down by US fighter jet over sea

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China's space station module Wentian and a Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket at the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on 18 July 2022 in Wenchang, Hainan Province of China

Space

China prepares to launch laboratory module to Tiangong space station

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Kunming in China, where COP15 is due to take place

Environment

China is putting nature at risk with its biodiversity summit delays

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The Frontier exascale supercomputer

Technology

Are the world's most powerful supercomputers operating in secret?

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Solar farm

Environment

China's new climate plan promises to peak CO2 emissions before 2030

China is responsible for 27 per cent of global emissions, making its newly announced climate plan an important move ahead of the COP26 climate summit

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Space

Rocks gathered by Chang'e 5 rover show magma once spewed from the moon

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Technology

Quantum supremacy has been achieved by a more complex quantum computer

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Will China's algorithm crackdown serve its citizens or the state?

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Environment

China's covid-19 lockdowns brought forward spring bloom by eight days

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