A rocket was successfully launched from a space platform into 25 to 40 kilometer "near space" from Lenghu Town, Haixi Prefecture, northwest China's Qinghai Province on Sunday morning. The launch used a high altitude zero-pressure helium balloon as a space platform.
A group of Chinese and American paleontologists said they have discovered an ancient fossil group of marine species dating back about 504 million years in Linyi City, east China's Shandong Province.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences will enhance dialogue and collaboration with peers from BRICS countries－Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa－to use big data as a tool to achieve sustainable development, scientists said during the BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development, which began on Tuesday.
Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs) have been widely used to treat malaria over the past two decades, employing Chinese wisdom to save millions of lives around the world.
Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of Cucurbitaceae in central China's Hubei Province, according to the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The new species, Hemsleya revoluta, has a revolute, yellow-green, globose corolla completely enveloping the calyx and ovary, and smooth seed margins.
A compressed-air energy storage project has begun its equipment debugging process and entered the final stage before starting operations in Zhangbei county in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. With its expected June startup, the project will be the first of its kind.
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