A collaborative project between China and Tanzania is making significant strides in improving the water and air quality in the near-lake areas of Lake Victoria, a vital freshwater resource facing environmental challenges. Recently, a project team led Dr. XIONG Chuanhe from Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a 10-day on-site investigation in the Mwanza Lake Bay area of Lake Victoria.
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A new study led by Prof. XIAO Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds light on the ore-forming process and key mechanisms of the gold deposit in the South Tianshan of northwest China.
A research team led by Prof. HUANG Qunying from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science and the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, has achieved nearly defect-free bonding between China low activation martensitic steel and an oxide dispersion-strengthened alloy using the hot compression bonding method.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a rare natural compound derived from the Teak tree (<i>Tectona grandis</i>) which works in two distinct ways to combat diabetes and lipid disorders.
A research team led by Prof. YAN Hong from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Australian scholars, reconstructed Australian summer monsoon (AuSM) variability over the past 13.5 ka using a 5.13-m-long sediment core from Bromfield Swamp in the tropical monsoon region of northern Australia.
The Mohe Station of the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station is China's northernmost satellite data receiving station. Normally the facility has only one staff member on duty, but as the Spring Festival approaches, four of its staff members have gathered in severe cold weather to conduct thorough winter inspections and maintenance.
A team of Chinese and Bangladeshi scientists made use of a China-made real-time acoustic monitoring system — dubbed "tech ears" — to detect 146 Ganges River dolphins. When the survey concluded on Jan 9, the team had identified multiple key dolphin habitats, including high-density activity zones near downstream sandbars.
The population of the Yangtze finless porpoise, the only freshwater porpoise species in China's longest river, has risen to 1,426 in 2025, indicating that the fishing ban and other conservation efforts are reviving the ecosystem of the Yangtze River.
The Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully conducted a business-oriented application experiment in satellite-to-ground laser communications with data rates exceeding 100 Gbps, achieving a peak transmission speed of 120 Gbps.
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