The Australian: China has overtaken Japan to become the second-biggest spender onresearch and development behind the US, says a report from theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.In other news from China, the New York Times’s Dennis Overbye reports on the burgeoning particle physics field in China. In a relatedpiece, Overbye summarizes a 1989 Physics Todaystory by David Goss on attending a particle physics meeting inBejing, around the time of the end of the Tiananmen square uprising.As Goss reported, “until the shooting began, the visit was delightful.”
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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