2025 Shanghai Science Festival kicks off with focus on innovation, technology

The 2025 Shanghai Science Festival, a two-week celebration of scientific innovation and technological advancement, opened on Saturday with multiple events targeting especially youngsters across the city.

The annual Festival will host nearly 2,000 events on basic and frontier topics, with shows, workshops, and forums. Fifty key laboratories and major scientific facilities will welcome public visitors.

At the opening ceremony on Saturday, some humanoid robots debuted on the red carpet alongside people, symbolizing the harmonious integration of human innovation and artificial intelligence.

The Shanghai Science Festival started in 1991 as China's first government-led and the world's second city-named science festival. It has become a crucial platform for public engagement with science and innovation activities.

Forty-eight science education bases will offer special admission rates in this year's festival.

2025 Shanghai Science Festival kicks off with focus on innovation, technology

The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Friday.

The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major peers, dropped 0.34 percent to 98.982 at 15:00 (2000 GMT).

In late New York trading, the euro rose to 1.1606 dollars from 1.1583 dollars in the previous session, and the British pound added to 1.34 dollars from 1.3328 U.S. dollars in the previous session.

The U.S. dollar bought 157.74 Japanese yen, lower than 157.77 Japanese yen in the previous session. The U.S. dollar decreased to 0.777 Swiss francs from 0.7827 Swiss francs, and it declined to 1.3596 Canadian dollars from 1.3697 Canadian dollars. The U.S. dollar dropped to 9.1855 Swedish Kronor from 9.2657 Swedish Kronor.

U.S. dollar ticks down