List of Science and Technology articles
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Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the House Committee on Financial Services Why Congress Should Regulate Cryptocurrency Now
The United States has a chance to become a standard-bearer as digital currencies expand.
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Personnel at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center Beijing’s Strategic Blueprint Is Changing as Tensions Grow
China is trying to free itself from dependence on imported technology.
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A visitor looks at a three-dimensional rendering of the planet Earth while using Google Earth software on September 26, 2012 at the official opening party of the Google offices in Berlin, Germany. Big Tech Won’t Remake the Global Order
If you had to bet on which will shape the future, the smart money would be on states over technology.
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A situation room monitors traffic camera data How the Data Revolution Will Help the World Fight Climate Change
Cities are the proving ground for potent new tools to address the crisis.
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Artist's rendering of a lunar exploration base. A Chinese-Russian Moon Base? Not So Fast.
Plans to compete with NASA’s lunar exploration project face substantial obstacles.
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New U.S. army technology is displayed. The Army’s Future Is Here—and It Has Robot Dogs With Guns
The Army grapples with how to showcase readiness and relevance in a new era of competition with China.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (center) listens to Dmitry Rogozin (left), the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, as they visit the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region on Sept. 4. Scientists Want Out of Russia
Deepening paranoia and prominent arrests are crushing morale.
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Onlookers watch the launch of an Indian Space Research Organisation rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Feb. 15, 2017. India’s Space Program Inches Closer to America and the Quad
In another strategic shift, Modi has opened space activities to private companies and new allies.
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An employee works on mobile phone components at an Indian Lava phone manufacturer factory in Noida on August 22, 2019. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images) Global Money Shifts to India as Xi Cracks Down on Tech
But the sudden flood of capital is not as good for India as it looks.
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Meng Wanzhou dressed in a red dress waves as she steps out of a plane with a Chinese flag on the side of it. Another Win for China’s Hostage Diplomacy
A yearslong diplomatic dispute between China and the West has finally ended.
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Commuters wait in line for public buses. China’s Social Credit System Is Actually Quite Boring
A supposedly Orwellian system is fragmented, localized, and mostly targeted at businesses.
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A man touches a giant bronze sculpture of a mammoth. The Woolly Mammoth’s Return Could Thaw Relations With Russia
An ambitious scientific project is a rare chance for cooperation.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Dec. 11, 2018. Big Tech’s Stranglehold on Artificial Intelligence Must Be Regulated
The technology is too important to be left in the clutches of Silicon Valley.
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A man uses his cellphone in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. China’s Growing Censorship Is Training the Public to Be Online Snitches
Everyone from feminists to nationalists is a potential target.
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Industrial robots prepare to attach doors to the body of an ID.3 electric car at a Volkswagen factory in Zwickau, Germany, on Feb. 25, 2020. What Biden Can Learn From Europe’s Industrial Policy
It’s not about the size of a spending package but about sharing brainpower and creating networks.