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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China are increasingly dominating in almost all research areas, and they are accelerating the pace and stepping up their ambitions….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a technology innovation arms race between the US and the West and China and others, and right now…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is now going hard on developing hypersonic drones and drone swarms and that should have the US worried ……

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to making big things humanity’s great, but we’re getting better at creating things at the nanoscale too…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly learning how to manipulate the code of life – DNA – and we’re doing some very weird…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of aviation and military aircraft, drones, and weapons systems, is hypersonic and China have the world’s fastest and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China is taking the hypersonic bull by the horns and innovating new energy and weapons systems faster than the US…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to genetically re-engineer chromosomes is the genetic equivalent of being able to re-write the paragraphs of a book…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to materials we think of them as static dumb things but that’s changing.   Love the Exponential…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cholesterol can be a killer but detecting and measuring it is normally invasive and tricky, but soon your smart watch…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of everything is fast – and this is the world’s fastest and most brutal wind tunnel which will…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China wants to have technological superiority and self-reliance by 2035, this is another step on that journey.   Love the…