Within the next decade, China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three times the size of the U.S. system.

The "national venture capital guidance fund" - an investment vehicle set up as public-private partnership - would focus on "hard technology", Zheng told a news conference, referring to areas such ...

A new study suggests orb-weaving spiders may manipulate the flashes of male fireflies caught in their web to mimic the mating call of a female.

Chinese factories churn out many of the chemicals used to make fentanyl that kills 70,000 people each year in the U.S. China's government says new regulations are coming but critics are skeptical.

In China, DeepSeek’s sudden shot to fame with artificial-intelligence models rivaling American ones has inspired a moment of national pride. In a week where attention on DeepSeek’s low-cost AI ...

Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive at Meta, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee accusing the company of undermining national security.

Is it a bird? Is it a winged goddess? Is it a giant roulette wheel? At the Miss Universe national costume contest, it was all those things — and more.

The Alarming National Security Implications of DeepSeek and China’s A.I. Breakthrough A Chinese A.I. upstart stuns markets, rattles the Pentagon, and threatens to upend America’s grand plans ...

Shoppers could begin seeing store shelves thinning out by the summer for imported goods shipped from China — with mom-and-pop businesses facing the highest risk of shortages, industry experts ...

Qing Bao, a 3-year-old female, is one of two giant pandas making the long journey from China to Washington, D.C. Roshan Patel / Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute For ...

Soft national spectacles like the Olympic parade — where San Marino gets as much stage time as China, where Norway gets its moment as a major world power (at least in winter) — may not inspire ...