The most sophisticated ship yet to join China’s research fleet was launched last week, marking the latest step in the country’s push to boost marine science. It “will be one of China’s key research vessels in the next couple of decades”, said Ding Zhongli, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn’t spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies.
A research team led by Hui-Ming Cheng, a Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, and Nikhil Koratkar, a Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has used graphene foam as a gas sensor to detect harmful explosive chemicals, paving the way for the commercialization of next-generation of gas sensors based on nanostructures.
Mole-8.5 supercomputer developed by the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPE-CAS) was on the top 10 list according to the latest Green 500 released on Nov. 18. China's supercomputer capacity has grown rapidly over the last decades, the Mole-8.5 is currently the sixth fastest computer in China but was the only one hit the top 10 in China.
Can we feed the world? Crisis looms when we witness soaring international food prices since 2008 and, what’s worse, severe food shortage occurred at Horn of Africa this year. Among initiatives to boost food security, one solution is to utilize remote sensing technology for agricultural monitoring at regional and global levels.
It is possible to know a tree from its fruit, but is it possible to know a prey from its predator? The answer is YES with Antarctic krill and Antarctic fur seals. Scientists of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) detected changes in the number of krill from the hair of seals.
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