...And it's on a competing Chinese search engine! Wang Ling, a computer scientist at SOSO.com, a site that's suspiciously laid out very similarly to the one currently having troubles in this country, has developed a bioinformatics search engine that mimics the way Chinese characters are indexed. Wait, what? more ›

It's a very significant day in science for China: the first genetic map of the Han Chinese has been published by the American Journal of Human Genetics. The study was conducted at the Genome Institue of Singapore, and draws from 8,200 DNA samples from ethnically Han Chinese all over China and in Singapore. more ›