More than 100 experts from China and around the world on Thursday gathered in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, for a two-day conference to address one of today's most pressing environmental challenges: biodiversity loss in arid and semi-arid ecosystems.
For a long time, scientists believed that when it came to seed dispersal, invertebrates – aside from ants – were mostly bystanders. Occasional sightings of wasps, beetles, wetas or slugs moving seeds were often brushed off as nature's oddities. But new research is challenging that assumption, pointing to a much bigger role for these overlooked creatures. Could invertebrates be the unsung heroes of plant life here on Earth?
A professional atlas documenting the wildlife of the Qilian Mountains, one of China's key ecological security barriers, has been published, according to the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This atlas is the first in China to systematically present the wildlife resources of the Qilian Mountains with both scientific rigor and stunning visual presentation, said Zhang Tongzuo, editor of the atlas and a researcher at the NWIPB.
Chinese scientists have developed a high-precision gridded precipitation dataset to support climate and precipitation research in alpine cold regions, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Using artificial intelligence, the researchers at NIEER created a new framework called Three-Layer Intelligent Downscaling and Calibration (TLIDC) to produce detailed precipitation data specifically tailored for these extreme environments.
After her neuroimaging research at Germany's Max Planck Institute, Dr. LI Juan chose to join the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – drawn by its global reputation and the synergy between her work and NIMTE's Nanobiomaterials Group. She collaborates with a vibrant team, pioneering novel biomaterials and smart biomedical probes for the precision diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Last year, Chen Liquan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was awarded the CAS Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, a recognition for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions. From developing China's first all-solid-state lithium metal battery to mentoring a new generation of scientists and entrepreneurs, Chen's work has been instrumental in transforming China from a follower to a global leader in battery technology.
While China's green energy transition appears to have a heavy focus on electric vehicles, solar, wind and hydro power, another clean energy source being developed is hydrogen. Zhou Wu, an expert on hydrogen catalysis has been a driving force behind China's research into the process that could revolutionize the clean commercial production of hydrogen.
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