China

Frogs invest in cognitive capacity to avoid predators—up until there are too many hungry snakes around for the evolutionary strategy to pay off.

Here’s what we know so far about a new virus detected in eastern China.

Parts of Southeast Asia where human and bat population densities are highest could be infection hotspots, a study finds.

A fossil analysis suggests that the yunnanozoan, a wormlike fish that flourished around 520 million years ago, sported structures that were the precursors of the head and jaws of modern vertebrates.

Agarwood fruit smells like prey, luring carnivorous hornets, a study suggests.

Texas A&M cited potential foreign interference when explaining why it shut down a jointly run modeling laboratory.

Mongolian rodents join the ranks of earthworms and beavers as known ecosystem engineers.

The Trump-era program targeted scientists in an effort to prevent China from accessing sensitive information from American research institutions.

Whole genome sequences reveal multiple domestications of this agriculturally important tree and may hold the secrets to producing the sweet fruit year round.

In a win for the US Department of Justice’s China Initiative, Charles Lieber was convicted of hiding his financial ties to China from federal agencies.

A report of preserved fragments of nuclei and chromatin in a fossilized femur of a 125-million-year-old Caudipteryx dinosaur elicits skepticism.

A new, more diverse group of researchers is being appointed take over the stalled investigation.

Justifying science funding through the lens of global competition risks fostering racial bias and discrimination.

The scientists were arrested last summer for allegedly hiding or falsifying information about their affiliations with the Chinese military.

The certification, a major accomplishment for the world’s most populous nation, may serve as an example to other countries struggling with malaria eradication.

A massive, well-preserved skull discovered in China in the 1930s belongs to a new species called Homo longi, researchers report, but experts remain skeptical about the evidence.

The House of Commons rebuked the president of the Canadian Public Health Agency for not turning over sensitive information pertaining to the dismissal of government scientists from the National Microbiology Laboratory.

The legislation, which now heads to the House, aims to ensure the country can compete with China technologically by supporting research and development over the next five years.

The high-yield variety of rice he produced in the 1970s prevented countless people from dying of starvation.