Month: July 2022

https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202206723 http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2022/0721/c95952-10125900.html As shown by Dong-po Song and his research team at Tianjin University, polyester-block-poly(ethylene glycol) bottlebrush block copolymers with varied side chain lengths can be used for the fabrication of biodegradable photonic microspheres and may be substitutes to nondegradable microbeads and toxic pigments in cosmetics. The pigment is made from biodegradable polyester materials such as polylactic […]

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2022/0720/c95952-10125344.html The majority of current 3D imaging technologies use the visual difference between the two eyes and the virtual synthesis of the brain to produce a “fake 3D image” on the display. The latest 3D imaging technology, however, uses a 3D physical space to bring up figures.　Scientists at the Hongtu Ultrafast Laser Joint Laboratory in […]

https://www.cas.cn/cm/202207/t20220722_4842699.shtml The Ministry of Education and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly launched a “National Summer School of Science Education” for teachers. The first training was held from July 20 to August 19, 2022 in Beijing and 11 other cities. 12 training sessions were organized, with 100 primary and secondary school science teachers attending each session […]

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi8455 http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0722/c90000-10126317.html The discovery made by a team led by researchers with the Institute of Crop Sciences under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) was published online Friday (Beijing Time) in the academic journal, Science. The research team examined 118 transcription factors associated with photosynthesis in maize and analyzed the related genes in rice […]

http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0721/c90000-10125711.html 14 autonomous driving taxis (Baidu Apollo robotaxis) were put into commercial operation at the Western China Autonomous Driving Open Test Base in Chongqing – an area covering 85 square kilometers with 220 km of roads. They are capable of Level-4 autonomous driving (“in most conditions without a human driver”). There is a human operator […]

https://www.cas.cn/cm/202207/t20220720_4842173.shtml A megawatt-scale proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolytic water hydrogen production system and megawatt-scale hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell power generation system developed by Shao Zhigang’s team at CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics was delivered to State Grid Anhui Electric Power Co. This marks the engineering verification of China’s MW-level PEM electrolytic water […]

https://www.cas.cn/syky/202207/t20220719_4842121.shtml CAS Shenyang Institute of Automation has developed a 6000-meter deep-sea exploration vessel. “Ask the Sea 1” has bathymetric side scan and shallow profiling acoustic detection, optical detection and robotic spot sampling capabilities. It will be installed on the vessel “Marine Geology IX” of Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, and will serve for […]