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As China’s cities become taller, bigger and more modern, they face a major problem: the ground beneath them is sinking. A 2024 study1 found that nearly…

Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via GettyChina has made no secret of its goal to attract the world’s best scientists. In the past three years, a parade of…

China has seen increasing international enrolments as its universities grow in stature, but this has also brought challenges.Credit: Yang Bo/China News Service/VCG via GettyIn 2018, I…

November 13, 20252 min read‘Godfather of AI’ Breaks Major Science Research RecordThe milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google ScholarBy Davide…

Schools in England are steering away children with special needs, leading some to have six times as many pupils requiring learning or behaviour support compared with…

Animal testing in science would be phased out faster under a new plan to increase the use of artificial intelligence and 3D bioprinted human tissues, a…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Headaches are incredibly common, but they’ve gotten surprisingly little attention from scientists.Here to walk us through what…

A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the…

How are investment firms rethinking data architecture to support advanced analytics and responsibly apply AI at scale?  At Bloomberg’s 2025 Enterprise Data & Tech Summit in New York, Angana Jacob, Global…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The president of the United States recently claimed that the use of acetaminophen, commonly known by the…