Second Quarter 2022----Chinese Academy of Sciences

English.cas.cn

1

China's Lunar Lander Finds Evidence of Native Water on Moon
2

Strange Fossil Solves Evolutionary Mystery of Giraffe
3

CRAFTS Discovers Younger and Weirder Brother of First Repeating Fast Radio Burst
4

Chinese Fossils Show Human Middle Ear Evolved from Fish Gills
5

Close Encounter More Than 10,000 Years Ago Stirred up Spirals in Accretion Disk

6

Latest Climate Models Tend to Overestimate Future Afro-Asian Monsoon Rainfall and Runoff
7

Researchers Discover Archean Continental Rocks at the Southwest Indian Ridge
8

Researchers Add New Member to Carbon Material Family, A Two-dimensional Monolayer Polymeric Fullerene
9

Researchers Boost Rice Yield by Overcoming Trait Tradeoff Between Panicle Number and Size
10

Gene Interaction That Contributes to Rice Heat Tolerance Identified

China's Lunar Lander Finds Evidence of Native Water on Moon

China's lunar lander Chang'E-5 finds evidence of native water on Moon, according to researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

Strange Fossil Solves Evolutionary Mystery of Giraffe

Fossils of a strange early giraffoid have revealed the key driving forces in giraffe evolution, according to a study led by researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

CRAFTS Discovers Younger and Weirder Brother of First Repeating Fast Radio Burst

An international team led by Dr. LI Di from the National Astronomical Observatories has discovered and localized an active repeating fast radio burst, FRB 190520B, in a metal-poor dwarf galaxy at a redshift of z=0.241.

Chinese Fossils Show Human Middle Ear Evolved from Fish Gills

Armored galeaspid fossils in China show that human middle ear evolved from fish gills, according to a study by scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and their collaborators.

Close Encounter More Than 10,000 Years Ago Stirred up Spirals in Accretion Disk

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and their collaborators have used high-resolution observational data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to discover a massive protostellar disk in the Galactic Center and determine how its spiral arms were formed.

Latest Climate Models Tend to Overestimate Future Afro-Asian Monsoon Rainfall and Runoff

A research team from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics has revealed that the latest CMIP6 climate models tend to overestimate future Afro-Asian summer monsoon (AfroASM) rainfall and runoff due to present-day biases in warming patterns.

Researchers Discover Archean Continental Rocks at the Southwest Indian Ridge

A joint research team led by Prof. LIU Chuanzhou from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics found abyssal peridotites dredged from the seafloor along the Southwest Indian Ridge that are the oldest rocks from the ocean ever discovered.

Researchers Add New Member to Carbon Material Family, A Two-dimensional Monolayer Polymeric Fullerene

A research group led by Prof. ZHENG Jian from the Institute of Chemistry developed a new interlayer bonding cleavage strategy to prepare a two-dimensional monolayer polymeric fullerene. They prepared magnesium intercalated C₆₀ bulk crystals as the precursor to the exfoliation reaction.

Researchers Boost Rice Yield by Overcoming Trait Tradeoff Between Panicle Number and Size

Researchers from LI Jiayang's group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology provided an effective strategy to overcome the bottleneck of rice yield using the tiling deletion to edit the cis-regulatory region of rice pleiotropic gene IPA1 and breaking the tradeoff of rice yield component traits.

Gene Interaction That Contributes to Rice Heat Tolerance Identified

A team of scientists led by LIN Hongxuan from a genetic module in rice links heat signals from Centre for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences found that the cell's plasma membrane to its internal chloroplasts to protect them from heat-stress damage and increase grain yield under heat stress.