First Quarter 2023----Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Researchers Find New Water Reservoir on Moon
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Bizarre Cretaceous Bird from China Shows Evolutionarily Decoupled Skull and Body
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Genomic Study of Ancient Humans Sheds Light on Human Evolution on the Tibetan Plateau
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Honey Bees Use Social Learning to Improve Waggle Dancing
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Fossil Pollen 'Sunscreen' Proves Role of Ozone Depletion in Largest Mass Extinction

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Researchers Develop Biodegradable, Biorecyclable Glass
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Two Chinese Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Drugs Conditionally Approved for Marketing
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Chinese Scientists Discover Ubiquitous, Increasing Ferric Iron on Lunar Surface
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Tame Heat with Pressure
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Researchers Devise a New Way to Control "3D" Effects in Chemical Reactions

Researchers Find New Water Reservoir on Moon

A research group led by Prof. HU Sen from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics has found that impact glass beads in Chang'e-5 (CE5) lunar soils contain some water.

Bizarre Cretaceous Bird from China Shows Evolutionarily Decoupled Skull and Body

Paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology reported a 120-million-year-old fossil bird exhibiting a dinosaur-like skull articulated with a bird-like body.

Genomic Study of Ancient Humans Sheds Light on Human Evolution on the Tibetan Plateau

A genomic study of ancient humans led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology sheds light on human evolution on the Tibetan Plateau.

Honey Bees Use Social Learning to Improve Waggle Dancing

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and the University of California San Diego have shown that honey bees use social signal learning to improve their ability to waggle dance.

Fossil Pollen 'Sunscreen' Proves Role of Ozone Depletion in Largest Mass Extinction

A new study led by Prof. LIU Feng from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology has revealed that fossil pollen 'sunscreen' proves the role of ozone depletion in largest mass extinction.

Researchers Develop Biodegradable, Biorecyclable Glass

A research group from the Institute of Process Engineering has developed a family of eco-friendly glass of biological origin fabricated from biologically derived amino acids or peptides. The proposed glass is biodegradable and biorecyclable.

Two Chinese Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Drugs Conditionally Approved for Marketing

Two innovative Chinese oral anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs, Xiannuoxin (simnotrelvir/ritonavir) and VV116 (deuremidevir hydrobromide), were conditionally approved for marketing by China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in late January after urgent review and approval under the Special Examination and Approval of Drugs Policy.

Chinese Scientists Discover Ubiquitous, Increasing Ferric Iron on Lunar Surface

A research team led by Profs. XU Yigang and HE Hongping from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry has discovered that high ferric iron content is present in agglutinate glass from lunar soil returned by China's Chang'e-5 mission.

Tame Heat with Pressure

Researchers led by Prof. LI Bing from the Institute of Metal Research have developed a new concept for extracting thermal energy from low-temperature waste heat sources and reusing it on demand simply by controlling the pressure, they have proposed and realized a new concept—barocaloric thermal batteries based on the unique inverse barocaloric effect.

Researchers Devise a New Way to Control "3D" Effects in Chemical Reactions

The impact of the direction of the chemical bond of colliding molecules on their chemical reactions has been observed in collisions of non-polar molecules for the first time. This observation and its theoretical underpinnings potentially offer a new way to control chemical reactions beyond the traditional chemical-reaction parameters of temperature, pressure and the addition of catalysts.