Over 700 scientists and delegates of the industrial sector from Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, UK and USA and other more than 30 countries gather in Beijing for the 8th International Congress on Ionic Liquids (COIL-8) from May 13th to17th, focusing on the development and application of ionic liquids in the future.
Six researchers from Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region have joined a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to arrive at the Qomolangma, also known as Everest, Base Camp to carry out research on the third pole ice sheet.
The International Center for Theoretical Physics Asia-Pacific (ICTP-AP) has been launched in Beijing, capital of China, according to China Science Daily on Thursday. The ICTP-AP will be a talent training base and international academic exchange center with global vision.
Plant varieties that were once poorly understood by the scientific community are now being developed and tested by Chinese scientists from the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with some species showing incredible promise for global poverty alleviation. One of the plants is Calotropis, commonly known as milkweeds. Native to the Sahel Africa, and other semiarid tropics in Asia, Calotropis is a fast-growing and drought-resistant plant that adapts to diverse soil conditions. Naturally suited to grow where other plants fail, Calotropis may globally transform the way we think about ecological restoration in arid and semiarid regions.
China's Yutu-2, the first rover on the far side of the moon, has found materials from deep inside the moon that could help unravel the mystery of the lunar mantle composition and the formation and evolution of the moon and the earth.The first important scientific discovery of the Chang'e-4 probe since it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon was published online in the latest issue of the academic journal Nature.
Flowering plants, or angiosperms, represent more than 95% of all vascular plant life on Earth, exhibiting unmatched ecological, functional and morphological diversity. While they presently dominate nearly all terrestrial environments, the early origins of flowering plants remain an enigma.
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