A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new fossil lungfish species in southwest China's Yunnan Province, offering important insights into a crucial phase of early vertebrate evolution. The finding, published in the journal Current Biology, was led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A China-developed technique for making ultrathin metal films was recently included in this year's top 10 scientific breakthroughs by the journal Physics World for achieving the world's first single-atom-layer metal materials, highlighting China's leading position in the field. The study, conducted by the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has pushed the thickness of metal materials to the angstrom scale, a thickness of merely one-millionth of that of a standard A4 paper and one-200,000th the diameter of a human hair.
A new study on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has provided key evidence for evaluating the permafrost carbon feedback in climate change, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This quantitative research on alpine thaw slumps on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is of importance to the global climate change predictions and the alpine ecological protection of China.
A new study published in the scientific journal Building and Environment reveals a persistent and evolving threat to indoor air quality known as "thirdhand smoke." While the risks of secondhand smoke are well understood, this study, led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides the first real-time analysis of how thirdhand smoke lingers and chemically transforms in our homes long after active smoking has ceased.
The ocean, as described by physical oceanographer ZHOU Hui of the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), is a "chaotic yet fascinating dance floor." It's a dynamic stage where everything from tiny ripples to vast, thousand-kilometer currents interact in a perpetual performance.
At work, Wang Zhifeng is a scientist specializing in solar thermal power research, but in his free time, he is an avid snow sports enthusiast. He has even covered one of the walls in his office with action shots of him and his family out on the slopes. He has combined his two passions to envision an indoor ski resort powered by solar energy on a sunny island in south China. In his eyes, solar power has great crossover potential: It is a source of heating and can be converted into various forms of energy, including cooling.
The 23-year-old Ahmed Medhat Mostafa Elsayed is an Egyptian student who is currently doing research in particle physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. Now Elsayed, whose research topic focuses on heavy neutrinos, plans to apply for the doctoral degree here, hoping he could make some influential scientific research achievements in the future and could become a bridge on academic exchange between China and the world.
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