Chinese scientists have developed a rapid e-waste mining method that extracts gold in under 20 minutes at around one-third of ...

New method can extract precious metals from old mobile phones, computers and home appliances in less than 20 minutes.

Chinese scientists say they have come up with a method to extract water from the moon’s soil – a potentially vital step towards building a lunar research base. The technique depends on extracting ...

DeepSeek has opened 2026 by fundamentally challenging the conventional methods of training artificial intelligence. The ...

In many Chinese restaurants, chicken breast or veal meat achieves a tenderness that seems incompatible with its lean nature, juicy, tender and mellow, with no trace of dryness. How do they achieve ...

Zhong Zhong (left) and Hua Hua are the first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996. Chinese researchers have finally figured out ...

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