An architect envisions that his futuristic development could contain up to 200 vegetation-covered towers, a train system, and lots of green space.
Roughly eight million tons of plastic enters the ocean every year. That’s according to a 2015 report, which also identified where the bulk of this trash originates. At the top of the list: China, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
Today China closes the first of its state-licensed ivory carving factories and retailers, a move conservationists hail as a big step toward saving elephants from extinction.
Australian Architectural firm McGregor Coxall has won a competition to design a wetland bird sanctuary in Tianjin, China. The winning entry will be the world's first migratory "bird airport."
The two green towers could provide the city with a breath of fresh air, producing around 132 pounds of oxygen every day as they absorb carbon dioxide. They’ll accomplish this air-cleaning feat with 1,100 flourishing trees and 2,500 cascading shrubs and plants.
The telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern Hemisphere. It is expected to be operational by 2021.
Reports are out that a Chinese robot has written and published its first newspaper article. The news comes the same month as a Japanese insurance company announced it was replacing 34 workers with an artificial intelligence system.
China has announced plans to cancel more than 100 coal plants currently in development, scrapping what would amount to a massive 120 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired electricity capacity if the plants were completed.
Chinese state media announced that by the end of the year it intends to put out a prototype of an exascale supercomputer that would be more than ten times as powerful as any existing machine.
The green roof of the new Nanning Planning Exhibition Hall in China is an elevated urban park.
A team of Chinese scientists announced that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source. Vacuum Ultra Violet (VUV) light sources are especially useful for sensitive detection of atoms, molecules and clusters.
A company in China has just unveiled the world’s first material-sensing smartphone. The Changhong H2 is capable of reading the molecular makeup of just about anything.
The Chinese tech giant LeEco has begun construction on its planned $3 billion electric car manufacturing facility in China.
Several schools in northern China are installing huge domes where children can play and exercise during recess to protect them from the smog outside.
As outlined in a new white paper announced Tuesday, the Chinese government hopes to soft-land a probe on the far side of the moon by 2018 and send a robotic mission to Mars in 2020.
