The National Academy of Sciences of the United States announced on April 30 the election of 120 members and 24 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Prof. WANG Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was the only scientist from the Chinese mainland to be elected an international member this year.
View More
Scientists led by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany have found that soil carbon dioxide emissions are more sensitive to climate warming in permafrost-collapsed areas than in non-collapsed areas.
Dr. LIU Qing's team from the South China Botanical Garden has assembled the genome sequence of wild oat species and conducted a comparative genomics research to deepen our understanding of the origin of the oat genome.
Researchers led by Prof. WANG Kelin from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture conducted a seven-year observation and control experiment in a karst region in southern China. To reduce random error, they used new methods to study how synchronized land-use change (starting at the same time and place) affects soil ecological processes and functions were used.
During a plant resource survey in Gongshan County, Yunnan Province in 2022, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Wuhan Botanical Garden discovered a special vine plant of the genus Vincetoxicum. After consulting relevant literature and comprehensive morphological character analysis, they finally confirmed that the species is new to botanical science.
Marine biologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are studying over 400 plankton samples collected during the recent 40th Chinese Antarctic Expedition. The expedition team, which set sail from Shanghai in November 2023, returned to the port of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province in April after a 161-day voyage exceeding 81,000 nautical miles.
A total of 31.5 kilograms of samples making up the new batch of research samples brought back to Earth in the return capsule of China's Shenzhou-17 manned spaceship were delivered to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing on Wednesday.
China's Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) -- dubbed Kuafu-1 in Chinese -- has detected more than 100 solar white-light flares since its launch in October 2022, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
China on Friday launched the Chang'e-6 spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon's mysterious far side -- the first endeavor of its kind in the history of human lunar exploration. A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-6 spacecraft, blasted off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the coast of China's southern island province of Hainan at 5:27 p.m. (Beijing Time).
26
Jun, 2024Samarkand, Uzbekistan
15
Jul, 2024Xi'an, Shaanxi
86-10-68597521 (day)
86-10-68597289 (night)
86-10-68511095 (day)
86-10-68512458 (night)
cas_en@cas.cn
52 Sanlihe Rd., Xicheng District,
Beijing, China (100864)
Copyright © 2002 - Chinese Academy of Sciences
