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.

Rheumatologist Song Guo Zheng pleaded guilty in November to delivering US-funded research to China.

A bipartisan bill aims to increase the National Science Foundation’s budget over the next five years and form a new technology directorate.

Instead, the full report will be available in mid-March.

An investigation by the World Health Organization into the origins of COVID-19 will instead focus on the virus’s animal origins and the possibility of spread through frozen foods.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

Several organizations suggest that a case against a University of Kansas professor is the latest example of the US government targeting researchers for their ethnicity.

Four Chinese nationals have been charged with visa fraud after revelations that they sent information on the layout of US labs and research carried out by colleagues back to China.

Despite high-profile political tensions between the two countries, researchers in the US and China are working together now more than ever, according to our bibliometric study.

Lacking many diagnostic test results from the first major outbreak, researchers have been left to scour other sources for clues about what happened in the early days of the pandemic.

A study of 34 children hospitalized with a coronavirus infection in China reveals that fever and coughing were common, but the type of lesions typically seen in the lungs of adults with COVID-19 were rare.

Administration officials and lawmakers say the move is to shore up national security threats, but university professors argue such cancellations represent targeted discrimination.

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

An inflatable biosafety laboratory may help meet the global need for testing infrastructure during the COVID-19 pandemic.

There is no evidence backing the idea that SARS-CoV-2 originated from US servicemembers visiting Wuhan.