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Chinese scientists find common blood pressure drug could cure rare brain tumour
1 week, 2 days ago

Chinese scientists find common blood pressure drug could cure rare brain tumour

The Independent  

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Chinese scientists develop material for ‘Harry Potter cloak’ that can make you invisible: Report
1 month, 1 week ago

Chinese scientists develop material for ‘Harry Potter cloak’ that can make you invisible: Report

Firstpost  

Chinese scientists have claimed to have developed technology that blends into surroundings and essentially renders invisibility like the ‘Invisibility Cloak’ in the Harry Potter novels and films Chinese scientists have claimed to have developed technology that blends seamlessly with the surroundings. Chinese scientists have claimed to have developed technology similar to the ‘Invisibility Cloak’ in the ‘Harry Potter’ novels and …

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Decades of bilateral fossil study unearths discoveries
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Decades of bilateral fossil study unearths discoveries

China Daily  

Paleontologists from China and Brazil inspect a pterosaur fossil site in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2017. Since 1997, Wang Xiaolin and his team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered numerous pterosaur fossils in the western part of Liaoning province, dating back around 125 to 120 million years ago …

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Decades of bilateral fossil study unearths discoveries
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Decades of bilateral fossil study unearths discoveries

China Daily  

Paleontologists from China and Brazil inspect a pterosaur fossil site in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in 2017. Since 1997, Wang Xiaolin and his team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered numerous pterosaur fossils in the western part of Liaoning province, dating back around 125 to 120 million years ago …

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Chinese scientists find new method to sweeten tomatoes
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Chinese scientists find new method to sweeten tomatoes

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Many people share a nostalgia for the rich, classic flavor of tomatoes from their childhood. However, a Chinese team has found a way to genetically release the tomato's sugar brake without sacrificing yield. The researchers from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences conducted taste tests on over 100 varieties of tomatoes and identified 33 flavor compounds that affect …

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Chinese scientists achieve possible breakthrough in plant diseases
2 months ago

Chinese scientists achieve possible breakthrough in plant diseases

China Daily  

Working model of immune control mediated by an important immune network ROD1-OsTIR-EPA. "Since specific sensors can only defend plants against specific pathogens, achieving effective broad-spectrum disease resistance against multiple pathogens has become a crucial topic in plant immunity research," Wan said. Another study published concurrently on the same journal, titled "A canonical protein complex controls immune homeostasis and multipathogen resistance", …

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Chinese scientists achieve possible breakthrough in plant diseases
2 months ago

Chinese scientists achieve possible breakthrough in plant diseases

China Daily  

Working model of immune control mediated by an important immune network ROD1-OsTIR-EPA. "Since specific sensors can only defend plants against specific pathogens, achieving effective broad-spectrum disease resistance against multiple pathogens has become a crucial topic in plant immunity research," Wan said. Another study published concurrently on the same journal, titled "A canonical protein complex controls immune homeostasis and multipathogen resistance", …

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Chinese scientists have built a 'real-life DEATH STAR': Terrifying Star Wars-inspired weapon focuses microwave beams to wipe out enemy satellites
2 months ago

Chinese scientists have built a 'real-life DEATH STAR': Terrifying Star Wars-inspired weapon focuses microwave beams to wipe out enemy satellites

Daily Mail  

Chinese scientists claim to have created a 'real-life Death Star' capable of devastating enemy satellites in orbit. While the exact details of the weapon remain highly classified, Chinese academic journals suggest that microwave weapons like this are being developed for use in space. Chinese scientists claim to have created a real-life Death Star weapon which merges pulses of microwave energy …

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Chinese scientists claim breakthrough in designs for real-life Death Star energy weapon
2 months ago

Chinese scientists claim breakthrough in designs for real-life Death Star energy weapon

The Independent  

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The Panda Factories
2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Panda Factories

New York Times  

National Zoo Washington, 2007 Smithsonian Institution Archives The Panda Factories In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into nature. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Sichuan, China, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives San Diego Zoo California, 2024 Ariana Drehsler for The New …

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US scientist and family on ‘kill list’ after working with Chinese scientists
3 months, 1 week ago

US scientist and family on ‘kill list’ after working with Chinese scientists

The Telegraph  

A leading British zoologist has said he faced death threats and his family appeared in an online ‘‘kill list’’ during a sustained wave of harassment over his work with Chinese scientists on virus research. Dr Peter Daszak, head of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, told the South China Morning Post that he had experienced a “medieval” witch hunt from critics of …

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Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists unveil neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in macaque monkeys' brain

China Daily  

SHANGHAI -- After a person memorizes a series of numbers, the numbers can be repeated in the correct order or in reverse. To figure out the neural mechanisms of sequence sorting in working memory, Chinese scientists trained two macaque monkeys to perform a visuospatial delayed sequence-sorting task and conducted high-throughput electrophysiological recordings in the frontal cortex of the monkeys. Images …

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Chinese magnet sets world record
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese magnet sets world record

China Daily  

This photo taken on Sept 22, 2024 shows the resistive magnet independently developed by Chinese scientists at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hefei, East China's Anhui province. The milestone achievement by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hefei Institutes of Physical …

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Chinese scientists set new record of resistive magnet
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists set new record of resistive magnet

China Daily  

Chinese scientists produced a steady magnetic field of 42.02 Tesla with a resistive magnet, or water-cooled magnet, on Sunday. Chinese scientists produced a steady magnetic field of 42.02 Tesla with a resistive magnet, or water-cooled magnet, on Sunday, setting a new world record for magnets of the type. High magnetic field is an extreme experimental condition required for material science …

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X-ray images, lunar farside soil shed more light on moon
3 months, 3 weeks ago

X-ray images, lunar farside soil shed more light on moon

China Daily  

The Einstein Probe X-ray astronomical satellite transmitted X-ray images of the moon back to Earth on Tuesday, which was Mid-Autumn Festival. In another lunar-related development on Tuesday, Chinese scientists revealed the nature of the lunar farside samples returned by the Chang'e 6 mission in a paper published in the National Science Review, illustrating how it exhibits distinct characteristics compared with …

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T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him
4 months ago

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

NPR  

Lee changed science in China and my life. Lee and Yang’s work overturned long-held assumptions about a basic tenet of the universe and countered racial discrimination against Chinese scientists in the West. In 1956, Lee and his colleague Chen Ning Yang, a fellow Chinese graduate of the University of Chicago, proposed novel methods to examine “parity violation,” where the universe’s …

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Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. Although quite a number of self-media mentioned the incident with headlines suggesting "Chinese scientists have discovered large quantities of water on the moon", the fact is, as shown by the original academic study, that domestic researchers have proposed a way of providing the …

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Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Another high-water mark for Chinese scientists

China Daily  

Lunar soil samples collected by the Chang'e 5 probe are displayed at the University of Hong Kong. Although quite a number of self-media mentioned the incident with headlines suggesting "Chinese scientists have discovered large quantities of water on the moon", the fact is, as shown by the original academic study, that domestic researchers have proposed a way of providing the …

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Number of Chinese scientists leaving US increasing yearly
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Number of Chinese scientists leaving US increasing yearly

China Daily  

Scientists of Chinese descent in the United States have been leaving the country because of "pull factors" from China and the "push factor" of the China Initiative of 2018, according to a major research study published in an American scientific journal. Also, a brief on the study, published in July by the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, concluded …

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Chinese scientists discover highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists discover highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-07-27 00:15 This schematic diagram provided by the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, coded GRB 221009A. BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have identified a gamma-ray spectral line with energy levels peaking at 37 million electron volts, the highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line ever observed from cosmic …

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Chinese scientists discover highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese scientists discover highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line

China Daily  

This schematic diagram provided by the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, coded GRB 221009A. BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have identified a gamma-ray spectral line with energy levels peaking at 37 million electron volts, the highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line ever observed from cosmic celestial bodies. These include China's …

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Chinese Moon probe finds water in lunar soil samples
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese Moon probe finds water in lunar soil samples

The Independent  

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China is getting secretive about its supercomputers
5 months, 2 weeks ago

China is getting secretive about its supercomputers

Live Mint  

But Chinese scientists have become more secretive as the U.S. has tried to hinder China’s technological progress, and they have stopped participating altogether in a prominent international supercomputing forum. A 2015 U.S. move curtailed Chinese supercomputer developers’ access to Intel chips and other U.S. hardware, followed by broader export restrictions four years later under the Trump administration. The rise of …

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Chinese scientists achieve speed breeding of rice in desert
7 months, 1 week ago

Chinese scientists achieve speed breeding of rice in desert

China Daily  

BEIJING -- Amid the sprawling desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Chinese scientists are harnessing advanced greenhouse technologies to unleash the agricultural potential of the otherwise infertile land. "The rice is cultivated on three-layer frames along with precise environment control in desert greenhouses, rather than conventional methods, which nearly halves the growth cycle, harvesting in just two months," …

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