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(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next.Among the logjammed traffic trying to enter Beijing last week on a highway from the south were dozens of trucks carrying food to the capital, stuck in line as health officials stopped each

Travellers from mainland China will be isolated for 14 days in new efforts to stem the coronavirus.

A couple of years ago, I got really interested in pu’er tea—a kind of fermented tea produced in China—which can sell for thousands of dollars. I tried some, liked it, read about its history, and then… My mind started racing: why is it so hard to buy pu’er tea in Europe? Maybe I could import …

A highly contagious patient, virus transmission inside a hospital and unexpected turns for the worse have emerged as part of the epidemic in China.

The 'visionary' microbiologist is remembered for research that helped save thousands of lives.

Manifold Learning has become an exciting application of geometry and in particular differential geometry to machine learning. However, I…

At least one of every two instances of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus is believed to occur while the first patient is not yet showing symptoms, according to an estimate by a group of Japanese university researchers.

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Its financial markets may be even more dangerous than its wildlife markets.

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New survey reveals the most popular tools used by Java developers.

The simple story of an unfair shoe with “springs” doesn’t capture the true complexity of the ongoing debate about technology in footwear

Dr. Frank Plummer was the first director of Canada's only Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in Winnipeg known as the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) it opened in 1999. Dr. Plummer left his post in 2014, but he left a facility with lot's of questions and lot's of questionable circumstances. Dr. Plummer...

General Motors is recalling about 162,000 full-size pickup trucks worldwide for a second time because of faulty brake control software that was installed in a recall from last year.

They are believed to be one of the world's most trafficked mammal, prized for their keratin scales.

The deadly coronavirus is causing some multinational companies to feel the pain more than others, according to an analyst.

Digital media have fundamentally changed the way we consume news. It is often assumed that the use of social networks and search engines has had a negative impact on the diversity of news that people access. This is often attributed to the algorithmic filtering used by these intermediaries, which only displays information that corresponds to the individual users' interests and preferences.

The White House asked scientists and medical experts to research the origins of the novel coronavirus, in part to counter misinformation about the outbreak.

Conformable imagers are flexible electronic components that can be placed in direct contact with a human user's skin, recording his/her vital signs or other biological information. Over the past few years, these imagers have become widely used, particularly for biometric authentication and in wearable electronics, such as smart watches or fitness trackers.