Chinese scientists are building the world's most powerful widefield survey telescope of its class in the northern hemisphere near the "Mars Camp" in Qinghai province. Construction of the telescope is due to be completed by 2022 and it will begin surveying the night sky around 2023.
A Chinese expert,an astronomer with the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, warned on Thursday against panic over an asteroid heading toward Earth, saying that there is zero chance of a collision.
Chinese researchers reported their first attempt to measure the vertical carbon dioxide distribution by using a non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) gas sensor. The miniaturized sensor, co-developed by experts from the academy's Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the University of Maryland, was carried in a giant aerostat, a helium-filled tethered balloon rising to 1,000 meters, to measure the vertical carbon dioxide distribution during a week-long experiment in January 2019, at a suburban site in Shijiazhuang.
Great efforts have been invested in seed collection and artificial cultivation of endangered orchid species by scientists at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden (XTBG). As the country enters late spring, some 100 species of orchids have started blooming in the botanic garden showing the diverse beauty of flowers in the orchid family.
This fall marks 11 years that I have been living in China and working at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). I have always loved China, being half Chinese and growing up fascinated with the culture of my mother and grandparents.
China's top science award winner Zeng Qingcun is a pioneer of numerical weather forecasting. Recognized by many as the world's top meteorologist, Zeng, for more than six decades, has been studying the Earth's atmosphere and its changes. He is a pioneer of numerical weather forecasting; has developed infrared remote-sensing theory for meteorological satellites; and made scientific contributions to disaster risk reduction.
Dr. Oluwarotimi Williams SAMUEL obtained a Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing in 2018 courtesy of the CAS-TWAS president's fellowship, receiving several distinguished honors and awards during the program. And this is his story in China.
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