Two technologies have helped Ukraine fend off a huge Russian onslaught. One of them is imported; the other is homegrown. Perhaps the more important, overall, is Elon Musk’s Starlink … | Continue reading
Rare earth elements, or REEs, are very much in the news these days. That’s because China continues to control 96% of the world’s REEs, which are crucial for today’s technolog… | Continue reading
We’ve all heard of the arms race, the space race, and even the peace race. But there’s one race that’s completely off the general public’s radar: who will be the first to mine Hel… | Continue reading
They say it’s about the size of an avocado, and weighs less than one pound. According to Sandia National Laboratories, this first-of-its-kind device contains a passively pumped vacuum chamber… | Continue reading
NEW YORK – When Covid-19 hit China before it hit the rest of the world, the meme in the Western media called it China’s “Chernobyl moment.” China’s remarkable success in suppressing the pande… | Continue reading
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern admitted Monday that New Zealand’s widely praised “Covid zero” strategy had failed to halt a stubborn outbreak in Auckland and said a new approach wa… | Continue reading
JAKARTA – Lured by the promise of US$2.8 billion in local investments, the Indonesian government has given the go-ahead for an Australian company to lay a 4,500-kilometer high-voltage power cable t… | Continue reading
China’s power crunch threatens to upend global supply chains and accentuate shortages of goods during the gift-giving Christmas and New Year holidays. Factories in China’s manufacturing hub of Guan… | Continue reading
“There is no defense against hypersonic. You’re not going to defend against it. Those things are going so fast, you’re not going to get it.”— Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs, Gen.… | Continue reading
You’ve reached the peak of a Swiss alpine summit … you breathe deep, take some photos, and begin to head down. But on your way down, the ice breaks under your pitons, and you are carrie… | Continue reading
An ideological split between Chinese President Xi Jinping and the country’s business and cultural elite has come to the fore after a hardline commentary by a known Maoist supporter received officia… | Continue reading
NEW YORK – Nokia departed this week from the US industry umbrella organization that’s promoting a software-based alternative to Huawei’s state-of-the-art 5G infrastructure – a blow to t… | Continue reading
Pierre Spey, one of the most interesting and controversial aircraft designers and a Pentagon nemesis, died this week at the age of 83. Spey was responsible for the design of the A-10 clos… | Continue reading
A massive Chinese-financed dam in Cambodia has “washed away the livelihoods” of tens of thousands of villagers while falling short of promised energy production, Human Rights Watch said… | Continue reading
Chinese tech giants now face a regulatory crackdown of epic proportions, one that has erased billions of dollars from valuations as Chinese stocks plunge amid concerns such investments are increasi… | Continue reading
In this article, Jonathan Tennenbaum constructs – conceptually – a hydrogen-boron fusion reactor similar to one proposed by Australian plasma physicist Heinrich Hora. Hora’s approach is one of many… | Continue reading
The various fields of science and technology are so closely connected that a breakthrough in one area can rapidly trigger a chain reaction of breakthroughs in other areas. The “impossible” becomes … | Continue reading
Two days ago, I spent six hours on encrypted apps with contacts inside the country trying to locate one – just one – oxygen concentrator for the mother of my friend, whom I will call “M… | Continue reading
Several online media outlets in Hong Kong took down opinion articles and videos from their websites or said they would move out of the city after one more columnist of the Apple Daily was arrested … | Continue reading
NEW YORK – “Goods produced by China’s hundreds of millions of workers are a strong anchor for stabilizing global inflation” read the banner headline at China’s “Observer” (guancha.cn) w… | Continue reading
It’s impossible to understand the finer points of what’s happening on the ground in Russia and across Eurasia, business-wise, without following the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum… | Continue reading
Nuclear weapons have already shown that it is possible to convert matter into large amounts of heat and light, but doing it the other way around, converting heat and light into matter, is much more… | Continue reading
“There is a Chinese saying, it takes 10 years to sharpen a sword. We have spent 60 years sharpening two swords … and they are the best.”— Chinese researcher Han Guilai Imagine a wind tu… | Continue reading
The Joe Biden administration closed the US State Department’s investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. But as the pandemic recedes in the United States, there is renewed inter… | Continue reading
This is the last of a five-part series on climate science. Read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. The just-published book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t,… | Continue reading
This is the third of a five-part series on climate science. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. Here we continue our interview with Dr Steven Koonin, chief scientist in the US Department of Energy du… | Continue reading
This is the first of a five-part series on climate science. Read part 1 here. Dr Steven Koonin, who served as chief scientist in the US Department of Energy during the Barack Obama administration, … | Continue reading
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) founder Morris Chang told a symposium this week that the fundamentals underlying his semiconductor production company’s world domination are not ea… | Continue reading
In his annual letter to JP Morgan shareholders, bank chairman Jaime Dimon offered a startling admission: Banks already compete against a large and powerful shadow banking system. And they are facin… | Continue reading
NEW YORK – The Biden administration’s US$1.9 stimulus package, adding to last year’s $2 trillion in Covid-19 related handouts, has the effect of feeding sugar to a diabetic. The patient is on… | Continue reading
TOKYO – When Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway announced last August that it had acquired more than 5% of the five largest Japanese general trading companies – Mitsubishi… | Continue reading
This is Part 5 of the series Watch Out! Biden wants to save the planet. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. US President Joe Biden has made fighting global warming a top… | Continue reading
JAKARTA – Chief investment minister Luhut Panjaitan has few concerns about China’s iron grip on Indonesia’s nickel industry as other major investors flock to a country with the range of miner… | Continue reading
This is the final installment of a four-part series. Read part one here, part two here and part three here. Jonathan Tennenbaum: Coming back to the Chinese results, to what extent do you … | Continue reading
This is the second installment of a four-part series. Read part one here. Jonathan Tennenbaum: Dr Aaronson, the announcement of the quantum computing experiment in China has caused great excitement… | Continue reading
This is the first installment of a four-part series. On December 3, Science magazine published a scientific paper by Chinese scientists on the results of experiments with a prototype quantum comput… | Continue reading
The world’s highest altitude river, cutting through the Tibetan plateau and rugged terrain along the Chinese-Indian border, carries troubled waters amid a new era of border tensions between the two… | Continue reading
Vietnam is threatening again to shut down Facebook due to official perceptions the US social media giant isn’t doing enough to censor content critical of the ruling Communist Party. With an estimat… | Continue reading
The space race is on! And China has leap-frogged the world in satellite communication. Not only did China send 13 more satellites into orbit today, it also successfully completed a world’s fi… | Continue reading
Twenty-five years ago, America’s tech companies took risks and disrupted established business models. Today they are the new utilities, earning monopoly rents by controlling markets. Microsoft chas… | Continue reading
Jonathan Tennenbaum: The Big Bang is probably the most famous scientific theory since Einstein’s relativity. The Big Bang theory says that our Universe began with a gigantic explosion, about … | Continue reading
TOKYO – White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien announced on October 23 that the US Coast Guard (USCG) will deploy its new Fast Response Cutters in the western Pacific to i… | Continue reading
The Chinese government is considering not recognizing British National (Overseas) passports as legitimate travel documents in retaliation against the British government for offering Hong Kong peopl… | Continue reading
Drones are playing a big role in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Israeli, Turkish, Russian and locally produced drones and loitering munitions figure in the confl… | Continue reading
Man vs. machine in the air. It was bound to happen at some point — and now we know for sure, it will happen in 2024. So says US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who announced Wednesday that the Pentag… | Continue reading
Sometimes, your enemy is really big. Departments and ministries of defense spend billions on ships, planes, tanks and very large guns to meet very large threats. But if the post-9-11 era has taught… | Continue reading
The moment has finally arrived — an artificial intelligence algorithm will face off against a human F-16 fighter pilot in aerial combat. The simulation — the third and final competition in US … | Continue reading
“World Civilization Research Association” scholars are claiming that Western civilization originates from China and all European languages are merely Mandarin dialects, Taiwan News reported. World … | Continue reading