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| The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a leading academic institution and comprehensive research and development center in natural science, technological science and high-tech innovation in China, launches an institutional reform in the headquarters on science and development management this week. |
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| The Chinese Academy of Sciences said Tuesday that it has carried out an evaluation of the conditions of resources and the environment following the earthquake that shook southwest China last month. The evaluation will lay a foundation for the formulation of a reconstruction plan for the quake-hit area, according to the academy. |
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| The tiny new spiders are both less than 2 millimeters in length. One of them, Trogloneta yuensis, is as little as 1.01 millimeters, and the other, Mysmena wawuensis, is measured to be the even tinier 0.75 millimeter, which classes it among the smallest spiders known. |
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| To study early dog domestication, a team of researchers led by Dr. WANG Guodong and Dr. ZHANG Yaping of the Kunming Institute of Zoology sequenced the genomes of four grey wolves from across Eurasia, three indigenous dogs from Southwest China, and three representatives of modern dog breeds. |
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| Seven oceanauts with China's manned submersible Jiaolong, which proved capable of diving 7,000-m-plus deep, have each been given the title of "Manned Submersible Hero". Jiaolong completed a dive of 7,062 meters in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench during its trial operation in June 2012, enabling China to conduct deep-sea scientific research and resource exploration in 99.8 percent of the worl... |
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| Chinese scientists have succeeded in obtaining three ice cores from Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest), with aims to study climate change, an expedition leader said Monday. During the expedition that lasted more than one month, scientists drilled the ice cores at a mountain pass near the East Rongbuk glacier, which covers the north collar of Mt. Everest, said Kang Shichang. |
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