The EAST team and its international partners held an online ceremony on Sept. 22 to celebrate delivery of the completed coils and units, namely six bottom correction coils (or BCCs) for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (or ITER) and lower divertor's 456 tungsten plasma facing units (or W-PFUs) for WEST facility operated by French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (or CEA), to mark this milestone in their collaboration history.
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In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) provide evidence for the novel future application of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (PsAgNPs) based nanoformulation for pest management.
Recently, researchers led by Prof. WANG Peng from the Institute of Applied Ecology conducted a series of experiments by employing a <sup>13</sup>C natural abundance approach with tree seedlings and soils, with aims to investigate how carbon allocation to and functional traits of absorptive roots influence the rhizosphere priming effect.
Under the guidance of Prof. DING Jianqing, XIAO Li, who graduated from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, conducted large scale field surveys of herbivory on the invasive tallow tree along latitudes in both its native (China) and introduced ranges (United States), and collected leaf samples for analyses of tannins and flavonoids.
Recently, scientists from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) assessed the Noah‐MP model for simulating soil hydrothermal dynamics at two typical permafrost sites with different underlying surfaces (the Tanggula site, alpine meadow; the Beiluhe site, alpine swamp) of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, speaks during the opening ceremony held to welcome the 2020 freshmen at the Yanqi Lake campus of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing on Sept 13, 2020.
Capable of flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters and conducting environmental monitoring, a Chinese self-developed flying robot is helping researchers learn more about the "roof of the world." The robot named Yunque is capable of conducting high-altitude environmental research and was used to monitor glaciers and lakes during China's second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Chinese paleontologists along with their counterparts from Germany and Britain have discovered the oldest known animal sperm in the world in a piece of amber dating 100 million years ago, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that summer monsoon moisture can invade the dry and cold regions in northwest China's Gansu Province, and oth the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation in northwestern China have visibly increased in recent years.
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