China Launches its First Space-Based X-ray Telescope[Jun 15, 2017]
China's first homegrown X-ray telescope, which aims to survey the Milky Way to observe celestial sources of X-rays, lifted off into space on June 15. Onboard the CZ-4B rocket, the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in northwest China.
Science, Innovation Cooperation to Benefit Belt and Road Countries[May 11, 2017]
China aims to complete a basic cooperation network in science and technology for countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative by 2030, it was announced Tuesday. Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said at a news briefing in Beijing that the network will be indispensable to the development of science and innovation by the middle of this century.
Chinese Scientists Make Quantum Leap in Computing[May 03, 2017]
Chinese scientists have built world's first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early classical computers, paving the way to the ultimate realization of quantum computing beating classical computers.
China Exclusive: Can We Grow Human Organs in Space? Chinese Scientists Ask[Apr 24, 2017]
Scientists from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are conducting experiments on Tianzhou-1, which launched Thursday, to study the effects of micro-gravity on embryonic stem cell proliferation and differentiation...
China Makes Progress in Deep Sea Expedition[Mar 24, 2017]
China made several breakthroughs in deep sea exploration as a team sailed 7,929 nautical miles to explore the trenches in the west Pacific Ocean, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Thursday. The 68-day expedition made China the first to obtain 10,000-meter-deep artificial seismic profile data with a domestic ocean bottom seismograph, at the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the CAS said in a statement.
China Acquires World's Deepest Seismic Profile Data[Mar 07, 2017]
The Institute of Geology and Geophysics completed two 10,000-meter-deep marine artificial seismic profile data acquisitions with its Chinese-made Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS) at the bottom of the Mariana Trench on February 28, 2017, and China has become the world's first country to acquire 10,000-meter-deep marine artificial seismic profile data, Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.
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