Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

A recent Financial Times investigation highlights how a vast and fiercely competitive system embedded in top high schools is ...

Expansion of prestigious annual award recognises field of study’s growing role in changing the way the world communicates.

Tsinghua University ranked second worldwide for computer science in the 2026 CSRankings, trailing only U.S's Carnegie Mellon University.

They churn out research papers at a rapid pace, but the quality of these publications has too often been in question.

In a policy document released this month, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, the same technology that Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other US startups ...

A decade ago Nature, a scientific publisher, began tallying the contributions made by researchers at different institutions to papers published across a set of 145 respected journals. When the first ...

Jacob Dreyer is an editor for business, economics, politics and law at Palgrave (a subsidiary of Springer Nature), based in Shanghai, China. The views expressed here are his own. An increasing number ...

Gestala is the latest company to emerge from China’s burgeoning brain-computer interface industry. It plans to access the brain with noninvasive ultrasound technology.

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. By this fundamental definition, China's ...