http://english.cas.cn zh_EN Chinese Academy Of Sciences english.cas.cn ../Ne/CASE/201202/t20120208_81143.shtml 2012.02.08 　　Tan Shi is used to heavy rain, so it never occurred to him during a weeklong storm in 2001 that the inundation would pose lethal dangers for years.  
It was not a "dramatic" storm by South China st...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201202/t20120207_81116.shtml 2012.02.07 　　Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has always been arid, a challenge to sustainable development. But water is getting scarcer.  
In the past five decades, 243 lakes in China have disappeared and 62 o...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201202/t20120207_81114.shtml 2012.02.07 　　Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a leading candidate material for the fabrication of thermochromic films and coatings that will find special applications in a new generation of 'smart' glass that can chan...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201202/t20120202_81051.shtml 2012.02.02 　　Over the first few years of life, human cognition continues to develop, soaking up information and experiences from the environment and far surpassing the abilities of even our nearest primate rela...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120131_81024.shtml 2012.01.31 　　While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing c...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201202/t20120201_81035.shtml 2012.01.21 　　The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Wednesday gave out its 2011 Awards for International Scientific Cooperation to three foreign experts from Denmark, the United States and Japan, respectively...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120120_80998.shtml 2012.01.20 　　The loss of China's first interplanetary probe, attached to an ill-fated Russian spacecraft, has cost scientists the chance to conduct breakthrough research on Mars, a top scientist said.  
New obj...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120118_80958.shtml 2012.01.18 　　The nation's grain harvest will increase again this year, the ninth gain in a row, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) forecast on Tuesday.  
The outlook, released by the academy's Center for For...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120118_80952.shtml 2012.01.18 　　On 11 January, CEODE(The Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences)’s Miyun Ground Station received the first track of satellite imaging data from the ZY3 satelli...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120118_80924.shtml 2012.01.18 　　Following are the world's top 10 science and technology achievements in 2011 unveiled Tuesday, as chosen by academicians with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering:...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120112_80802.shtml 2012.01.12 　　By reviewing the latest discovery of Kunming Institute of Zoology, CAS, about the newly evolved gene CG11700 in drosophila, you will have to agree that “there is no free lunch” definitely is an i...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120112_80803.shtml 2012.01.12 　　Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests. 
Brain scans of white matter in the brain (Image by BBC)
Experts in China scanned the brai...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120110_80740.shtml 2012.01.10 　　Chinese researchers have revealed that the amount of water entering the Yangtze River near its source on the Tibetan plateau has fallen by 15% over the past four decades, despite a 15% increase in ...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120110_80707.shtml 2012.01.10 　　Almost all gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans, chondrichthyans, ‘acanthodians’ and most placoderms) possess paired pectoral and pelvic fins. To date, it has generally been...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201201/t20120105_80584.shtml 2012.01.05 　　At the mention of “barcode”, most of people will think about the 11-digit barcode on the product of market shelf and by scanning it, all the information details of the product can be accessed. Bu...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111230_80518.shtml 2011.12.30 　　How the human brain and human cognitive abilities evolved in less than six million years has long puzzled scientists. A new study conducted by scientists in China and Germany, and published Decembe...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111229_80492.shtml 2011.12.29 　　SIV/HIV (simian/human immunodeficiency virus) is always a distressing topic. What’s the difference of SIV and HIV? In short, HIV is found in humans and SIV is found in non-human simians. SIV, also...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111221_80241.shtml 2011.12.21 　　When kissing your sweetest pet dogs, I guess most of you aware that they are from the domestication of wolfs. But when it comes to the origins the cute fur balls, I bet you get no clue. As may have...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111220_80199.shtml 2011.12.20 　　Domestication, the process whereby a population of animals or plants, through a process of selection, becomes accustomed to human provision and control, is a mark of human civilization. During dome...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111215_80095.shtml 2011.12.16 　　As one of the earliest domesticated crops by human being, rice has undergone significant phenotypic and physiological changes during the process of transformation from wild rice to cultivated rice ...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111216_80101.shtml 2011.12.16 　　Drs. JIANG Shunxing and WANG Xiaolin from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaur, Pterofiltus qiui ...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111215_80079.shtml 2011.12.15 　　Rice is an important crop among the world and feed nearly 50% world population. It is planted widely and many rice cultivars have excellent agricultural traits, which are the resources for rice imp...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111214_80025.shtml 2011.12.15 　　Particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 micrometer (PM2.5) has aroused a heated debate in China recently. But do you know how particulate matter comes from? In fact, one of the m...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111214_80004.shtml 2011.12.14 　　China plans to develop its own new comprehensive system for monitoring and accurately calculating the country's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, a leading Chinese scientist said Tuesday. 

There is ...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111213_79997.shtml 2011.12.14 　　Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (iPS-CMs) have opened new avenues for the investigation of heart diseases, drug screening and potential autologo...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111212_79933.shtml 2011.12.12 　　China needs to build at least 10 more research vessels in the next five to 10 years to cater to the country's rising demand for marine exploration, especially in deep-sea areas, an oceanologist has...]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111212_79925.shtml 2011.12.12 　　The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Friday that it has elected 51 new academicians, 90 percent of whom have the experience of studying abroad. 
The dilatation has taken the total number...]]> http://www.nature.com/news/china-pushes-to-rule-the-waves-1.9564 2011.12.07 　　]]> ../Ne/CASE/201112/t20111205_79661.shtml 2011.12.05 　　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 Spa...]]> http://english.cas.cn/accessory/new_twas_members/ 2011.12.02 　　]]>