APS has appointed Jian-Wei Pan, Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, as a Lead Editor for Physical Review Research. Pan joins Lead Editor Nicola Spaldin, appointed in April, on the editorial leadership team for APS’s new open access, multidisciplinary journal, which will open for submissions later this month.
Chinese and Russian institutes will further strengthen cooperation in the research of atmospheric optics and plan to build a research center in east China's Anhui Province. The Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science signed an agreement on May 30 to build a closer tie between the two institutes.
A remote operated vehicle (ROV) aboard China's research vessel KEXUE (Science), has gathered more than 500 collections of biological samples in 10 dives in two seamounts of the western Pacific Ocean by Thursday. Chinese scientists estimated that there were about 200 species in the collections, including corals, sponges, sea lilies and aplysias.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently signed a framework agreement with the southwestern province of Sichuan to deepen cooperation on scientific and technological innovation. The partnership will see the development of major research infrastructures and projects in Sichuan.
A light-weight, stretchy heat insulation material, which is inspired by polar bear hair, has been developed by Chinese scientists YU Shuhong. Applications in architecture and aerospace sectors in is promising in the future.
China's BeiDou-3 system, a global geolocation network, is expected to be completed in 2020, with a total of 35 satellites, researchers at a conference on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) said.
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