Dannie Peng
Science Journalist at South China Morning Post
award-winning science journalist | investigative stories on science, healthcare, Covid-19, environment... | @SCMPnews | writes about China science
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Dannie Peng
China has set out to lead the construction of the world’s most comprehensive space weather monitoring and warning network, an ambitious ground-based system comprising the largest chain of observatories on Earth, passing through more than 10 countries and regions.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Dannie Peng
Audience members at a university dance recital have sparked a viral – and visceral – reaction after a social media post with 10 million views showed them taking part in a brain-reading experiment while watching the performance.
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1 week ago |
scmp.com | Dannie Peng
Chinese climate scientists are mourning the loss of a “pure, passionate” scholar after the sudden death of atmospheric physicist Wen Xinyu at just 45 years of age. The associate professor with the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University’s School of Physics died on June 14 after suffering a heart attack, according to the obituary published by his home institute.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Dannie Peng
He Jiankui looked a little tired and worn as he contemplated his future. With no home and no institution to host his research, the 41-year-old biophysicist and self-proclaimed “pioneer of gene editing” was weighing up what to do next while staying at an upmarket hotel in Beijing late last month.
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2 weeks ago |
scmp.com | Dannie Peng
Research by archaeologists from Chinese and US institutes suggests that pigs were already domesticated in southern China around 8,000 years ago. The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth College and the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, analysed two early Neolithic sites in the province’s Yangtze Delta region.
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My latest piece writes about a rising alternative theory on the origins of modern humans, which aims to overturn the conventional hypothesis and argues instead that East Asia was the most likely origin. See more at: https://t.co/GagS0P7Jc9
ETH Zurich to restrict admission of students from countries including China in its latest security screening policy. This is unusual for a country who sticks to political neutrality and has led to some critics. I got the reply from the university. https://t.co/hUqvR4DF1H
Spent nearly three weeks investigating this issue; though some content is simplified, still proud of what I have recorded. Institut Pasteur of Shanghai renamed the Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Infection as scientific collaboration ends https://t.co/odYkM7WEsU