Third Quarter 2024----Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Global Warming Makes Rainfall More Erratic
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Physicists Discover Heaviest Antimatter Hypernucleus to Date
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Bronze Age Lactobacillus Genomes Clarify Kefir History
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Researchers Find 120-million-year-old Volcanism on the Moon
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Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition Observed in Fermionic Hubbard Quantum Simulator

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Recycled Micro-sized Silicon Anodes from Photovoltaic Waste Improve Lithium-ion Battery Performance
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Chinese Scientists Uncover Metformin’s Potential to Delay Aging in Primates
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"Motion Picture" View of Warped Milky Way Reveals Shape of Its Dark Matter Halo
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Novel Strategy Proposed for Massive Water Production on the Moon
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Study Shows Link Between Asymmetric Polar Ice Sheet Evolution and Global Climate

Global Warming Makes Rainfall More Erratic

For the first time, a new study by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics has provided systematic observational evidence that human-induced climate change is making rainfall patterns more volatile globally. Published in the journal Science, the study shows a systematic increase in rainfall variability since the 1900s from global to regional scales and from daily to intraseasonal timescales.

Physicists Discover Heaviest Antimatter Hypernucleus to Date

Physicists from the STAR Collaboration have observed a new antimatter hypernucleus, antihyperhydrogen-4, for the first time. This is the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus discovered in experiments to date.

Bronze Age Lactobacillus Genomes Clarify Kefir History

Recently, a group of Chinese scientists has added to our knowledge of the dispersion of early dairy fermentation practices, however, by completing the world’s first metagenomic study of Bronze Age kefir cheese unearthed from Xiaohe cemetery—the most ancient dairy remains known to date.

Researchers Find 120-million-year-old Volcanism on the Moon

Scientists at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics identified three volcanic glass beads from lunar soil samples collected by the Chang’e-5 mission. Their research shows that the beads were formed 123±15 million years ago, representing the youngest lunar volcanism confirmed by radioisotope dating so far.

Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition Observed in Fermionic Hubbard Quantum Simulator

In a study published online in Nature, a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China has, for the first time, observed the antiferromagnetic phase transition within a large-scale quantum simulator of the fermionic Hubbard model (FHM).

Recycled Micro-sized Silicon Anodes from Photovoltaic Waste Improve Lithium-ion Battery Performance

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology have developed low-cost micro-sized silicon anodes from recycled photovoltaic waste using a novel electrolyte design.

Chinese Scientists Uncover Metformin’s Potential to Delay Aging in Primates

Is aging reversible? This timeless question has now been answered by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their new discovery has shown that metformin, commonly used for type 2 diabetes, can alleviate human cellular senescence, markedly slowing down aging in primates.

"Motion Picture" View of Warped Milky Way Reveals Shape of Its Dark Matter Halo

A research team led by Dr. HUANG Yang from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences pioneered the "motion picture" method for measuring the precession rate of the Milky Way's disk warp.

Novel Strategy Proposed for Massive Water Production on the Moon

Prof. WANG Junqiang’s team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently developed a new method of massive water production through reaction between lunar regolith and endogenous hydrogen.

Study Shows Link Between Asymmetric Polar Ice Sheet Evolution and Global Climate

Recent joint research by scientists from the Institute of Earth Environment has revealed the pivotal role of the growth of the Antarctic ice sheet and associated Southern Hemisphere sea ice expansion in triggering the mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT). It has also shown how asymmetric polar ice sheet evolution affects global climate.