The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong has allocated 544.6 million HK dollars in funds to 764 research projects, according to local government website on Wednesday.
Over a hundred Chinese scientists will set sail to the Arctic on July 1, the fourth such expedition of its kind, to study changes in ice surface and its effects on the environment, the State Oceanic Administration said Saturday.
YUAN Longping, known as the "father of hybrid rice", said on Sunday that his team was working on a new version of high-yield hybrid rice and might complete it in 2012.
China has successfully sent into space a scientific research satellite at 9:39 a.m. Tuesday from northwest China's Gansu Province.
Chinese and U.S. researchers have discovered a new strain of bacteria that can help cleanup of the massive Gulf Coast oil spill, it was announced on Friday.
Chinese zoologists hope a scheme to gradually release captive-bred giant pandas into the wild will reduce the risk of inbreeding among the animals' wild partners.
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