Researchers are using molecular-dynamics simulations as a "computational microscope” to peer into the atomic structure of the H1N1 virus1. Using the Mole-8.5 GPU-accelerated supercomputer, which includes more than 2,200 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, researchers were able to simulate the whole H1N1 influenza virus, enabling them to verify current theoretical and experimental understandings of the virus.
Dr. BAI Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) at the Academician Conference of the acatech held on October 18, 2011. Professor Reinhard F. Hüttl and Professor Henning Kagermann, co-presidents of the acatech sent a letter recently to Dr. BAI and informed him of the news.
Researchers from Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyze enamel stable carbon isotope values of G. blacki and the associated mammalian megafauna from two sites in South China, and find that this giant ape and other large mammals solely fed on C3 biomass, and lived in forest habitats, as reported in the journal of Chinese Science Bulletin, 2011(56).
Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce several copies of the state of a particle at atomic or sub-atomic scale, or quantum state, in an article about to be published
Truffles are called the "king of fungi" for good reason. Yet 'king of fungi' faces extinction from overeager farmers, Yang Wanli reports from Yunnan province. "That is the attitude of most local farmers, which has become the biggest problem for us to protect truffles," Liu Peigui said. "If they continue to hunt truffles before the mature season, it will lead to extinction in the next three or five years."
According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, since 2008, various natural disasters have caused 2.26 trillion yuan ($360 billion) in direct economic losses on the Chinese mainland. More than 70 percent of Chinese cities and upwards of half the country's population are exposed to natural hazards, such as extreme weather events plus seismic, geological and marine disasters, said a Chinese scientist.
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