Despite making almost 40 billion ballpoint pens a year, until recently China was struggling to manufacture one component domestically. WSJ explains what made it so difficult. Illustration ...

China made robotics a focal point of its recent "Made in China 2025" plan and has set national goals of producing 100,000 industrial robots a year and having 150 robots in operation for every 10,000 ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

To understand how this works in highlighter pens, we can compare them to ordinary ballpoint pens. When light hits the ink of a blue pen, the ink reflects blue light and absorbs other colours ...