Vietnam's technology exchanges list 62,548 technologies for sale but only 750 buying requests, exposing a major gap between research and market demand and prompting calls for closer industry-academia cooperation.

Vietnam International Digital Week 2026 (VIDW 2026) is expected to bring together around 500 domestic and international delegates to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) governance, strategic digital technologies and cooperation in technology

Nathan Chen Guangyu, a 17-year-old Chinese AI prodigy, is reportedly set to join Discovery Loop, a US artificial intelligence startup co-founded by renowned Vietnamese AI researcher Le Viet Quoc.

Vietnam is hosting the 90th meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation in Da Nang from October 13 to 15, bringing together regional officials and experts to advance research cooperation and emerging technologies.

Nine scientists working in Vietnam have secured places among the world's 10,000 most influential researchers in Elsevier's 2026 rankings. The country also has 75 researchers in the global top 100,000, two more than last year.

Vietnam aims to operate three national flight-testing zones and at least one national research and testing center for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by 2030 as it develops its emerging low-altitude economy.

CT UAV recently announced the design and successful test flight of the CT Pegas 230, a heavy-lift unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) boasting a maximum takeoff weight of 230kg and a payload capacity reaching 100kg.

Morgan Stanley estimates the humanoid robot market could reach $5 trillion by 2050. Experts say Vietnam can tap the opportunity by building talent, creating dedicated policies and accelerating real-world trials.

To realise its goals for developing atomic energy and nuclear power by 2035, Vietnam will need tens of thousands of direct and indirect workers, ensuring the safe and effective operation of the national nuclear power development programme.

Vietnamese Minister of Science and Technology Vu Hai Quan held a series of meetings in the Republic of Korea (RoK) on September 30.

The search for the critically rare Hoan Kiem turtle is drawing renewed attention in Vietnam, as scientists seek evidence of whether another Rafetus swinhoei may still survive beneath the waters of Dong Mo Lake in Hanoi.

With tape-out costs reaching millions of USD and a missing manufacturing-testing ecosystem, the gap between a chip design and a commercialized product remains vast.

The Moon spins on its axis, yet from Earth we always see almost the same face. The explanation lies in a celestial phenomenon billions of years in the making: tidal locking.

Vietnam is expanding its domestic space technology capabilities through a new R&D center jointly established by PTIT and Italy’s Temix, with research and product development to take place locally.

After 70 years of scientific cooperation with JINR, Vietnam is seeking to build a joint accelerator science and technology laboratory while developing stronger research teams and training a new generation of scientists.

Vietnam is offering grants of up to VND3 billion (US$114,000) per project to businesses and organizations deploying AI to solve practical problems and develop new products and services.

For more than a century, astronomers have been fascinated by an intriguing possibility: an undiscovered planet, provisionally known as Planet Nine, could be hiding in the most distant reaches of the Solar System.

Although the Political Bureau’s Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW allows pilot schemes for new practical issues and accepts risks and delays in science, technology and innovation, concerns over risks and responsibility persist.

Vietnam will become the third stop for the Sea x OpenAI Regional Codex Hackathon Series, bringing developers together to build practical AI solutions with Codex and GPT-6 Astra.