Window to China
The New Year travel rush in China has started 15 days before the Spring Festival, which takes place on 5 February. Within 40 days, from January 21 to March 1, China’s transportation systems are preparing for nearly three billion passengers as people travel to family celebrations across the country. At several major train stations such […]
According to a study over 14 years carried out on over 23,000 people aged 80 or older residing in 22 provinces of China, those who had the highest “vegetation index” within 250 meters of their home had a mortality rate 27% lower compared to those with the lowest vegetation index. Lancet, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30264-X
A team led by Jianhai XIANG and Fuhua LI solved the genome of shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) and obtained a high-quality shrimp genome reference map. Decapod crustaceans contain a large number of important aquatic species, such as shrimp, crab, lobster, etc., and Litopenaeus vannamei is the first among the four cultured shrimps, with an annual output […]
The team around Chun Chao HUANG overexpressed geranylpyrophosphate synthase of Archaeoglobus, Escherichia coli isopentenyl pyrophosphate isomerase and Vitreoscilla hemoglobin in this marine microalgae, resulting in not only 1.85- and 5.02-fold increases of total carotenoids and astaxanthin, but also 2.40- and 2.74-fold increases of total fatty acids and DHA. CAS news release, January 22, 2019
At the national conference of the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing, the following data were released: (1) the average number of earthquakes > M5.0 were 24 per year since 1950, and 16 in 2018, (2) in 2016, there were no earthquakes > M6.0 and there were no dead, (3) earthquake resistance and disaster prevention ability […]
In an experiment to popularize space science, sprouting cottonseed was taken up to the moon by China’s Chang’e-4 Lunar Exploration Program on January 3. The payload has a heating system which kept the seed warm for sprouting. When the payload turned off after the Chang’e-4 lander entered sleep mode to save energy on January 13, the […]
Xuan paper is a unique high-quality paper originating in ancient China. It is considered the best material for the calligraphy and painting andhas a reputation as “the king of paper that lasts for 1000 years”. 2009 it came on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Xuan paper is produced only in Anhui province from […]
A team from CAS Institute of Biophysics, Institute of Zoology and Peking University has prepared human vascular cells with improved self-renewal and increased resistance to oxidative injury. In human ESC-derived vascular cells, they engineered FOXO3, an evolutionarily conserved longevity factor, to a more stable homolog by replacing two nucleotides in exon 3 of the FOXO3 gene that inhibit […]
Science Daily reported that China’s first graphene national standard “China’s ninth technical term part 13: graphene and related two-dimensional materials” (GB / T 30544.13-2018 ) was officially announced. According to the standard, graphene can be composed of single or multiple layers, closely bonded to adjacent atoms and must have a dimension in the nanoscale or […]
The software is based on Multilayered Attention Modeling (SMLTA) which has increased the accuracy of on-line voice authentication by 15%. Current input software is mainly used for mobile terminals, but in the future it will be applied to interaction between various smart devices and users. With the progress of voice input technology that mixes Chinese, […]