Two more officials from the Chinese Football Association (CFA) have been placed under investigation for severe disciplinary violations, bringing the total number of CFA officials under investigation to 13 since November, 2022, amid China's intense efforts to crack down on corruption in football. The latest probe, announced by Hubei's discipline inspection and supervision body on […]

The last few years have seen outdoor sports in China grow extremely popular. The 2023 Outdoor Life Trend Report, jointly released by a social networking platform and two other media outlets, shows that outdoor activities have gradually become a part of people's daily lives. From January to October, the number of people who engage in […]

Recently, a short video of a graduation speech delivered by a visually impaired postgraduate student during the Communication University of China (CUC) graduation ceremony in Beijing, has moved many Chinese netizens. In the video posted by the CUC on its WeChat page on June 28, Dong Lina, a postgraduate student from the Broadcasting and Anchoring […]

China aims to build a more ubiquitous, integrated, and intelligent comprehensive system with the next generation BeiDou System (BDS) at its core by 2035 to provide efficient positioning, navigation and timing services, according to the China Satellite Navigation Annual Conference held in Beijing on Wednesday. With the theme of "digital economy, intelligent navigation," the annual […]

Chinese fishermen have appealed for a rational response after Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater triggered online attacks in response to selling home-grown seafood through livestream channels. "We really don't have contamination currently. The seafood from coastal waters is safe," a fisherman from East China's Zhejiang Province said in his livestream on Saturday morning as several […]

Unending debateFoods containing genetically modified organisms have been on grocery store shelves for decades, with plenty of evidence that eating them is no more dangerous to health than eating conventional foods, Rachel Ehrenberg concluded in “GMOs under scrutiny” (SN: 2/6/16, p. 22). Reader response to the article was overwhelming, with many thanking Ehrenberg for her […]

For burying beetles, it’s not whether a female wins or loses, it’s whether she plays the game. Female Nicrophorus vespilloides beetles lay their eggs in dead bodies — specifically, the bodies of small mammals, like mice. But dead mammals are hard to find, and burying beetles don’t share. So females will fight over them, with […]

Flightless perksGalápagos cormorants are the only cormorant species with wings too small to fly, and broken cellular antennae that transmit garbled developmental messages are probably to blame, Tina Hesman Saey reportedin “How a Galápagos bird got tiny wings” (SN: 6/11/16, p. 11). Online reader Mark S. wondered if the inability to fly conveyed any advantages […]