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FAST Scope to Search for Planets like Earth

China, US Still Have Room to Cooperate in Science and Technology

Scientists Find New Bird Fossil with An Unusually Long Toe in Myanmar

FAST Scope to Search for Planets like Earth

Scientists from China and France proposed to use the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built to hunt for signals from alien life and search for extrasolar planets - or exoplanets, which have magnetic fields like our planet - within 100 light-years of Earth.

Research News

Jul 16, 2019

New Method to Obtain Linearly-polarized Ultrafast Laser

In past decades, ultrafast fiber lasers have attracted considerable attention due to their applications in fundamental research, biomedicine and industry. Recently, scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a Raman DS fiber laser mode-locked by a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM).
Jul 16, 2019

Scientists Reveal Spatial Distribution and Stoichiometry of Soil Ca...

Scientists from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture studied the patterns of the spatial distribution and stoichiometry of soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), with 123 soil samples, along a small-scale elevation gradient in the wetland of East Dongting Lake, China.
Jul 16, 2019

Searching Predecessor of Merging Galaxy

A research team from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory published a new research result on galaxy pairs. They first constructed the largest galaxy pair sample to date, and then accurately measured the bivariate luminosity function of galaxy pairs.

Multimedia News

JUNO Construction Enters Key Phase

The successor to the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), currently under construction, is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarchy and precisely measure neutrino oscillation parameters.