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29-12 China’s new energy power generation in 2021 exceeded 1 trillion kWh
China's new energy power generation from January through November 2021 reached 1,355.7 billion kWh, an increase of 33% from the same period of the previous year and surpassing 1 trillion kWh annually for the first time. 587 Billion kWh came from wind power was, 300...
29-12 ALIBABA’s vision on 2022 Top Technology Trends
On December 29, Alibaba’s research institute DAMO published its vision on the top ten technology trends for 2022: 1: AI for Science AI will become a new production tool for scientists and create a new paradigm for scientific research. 2: Large and small model...
29-12 China’s new energy power generation in 2021 exceeded 1 trillion kWh
China's new energy power generation from January through November 2021 reached 1,355.7 billion kWh, an increase of 33% from the same period of the previous year and surpassing 1 trillion kWh annually for the first time. 587 Billion kWh came from wind power was, 300...
29-12 ALIBABA’s vision on 2022 Top Technology Trends
On December 29, Alibaba’s research institute DAMO published its vision on the top ten technology trends for 2022: 1: AI for Science AI will become a new production tool for scientists and create a new paradigm for scientific research. 2: Large and small model...
28-12 CAS Institute of Microbiology designs simplified enzymatic pathway for CO2 fixation
Yin Li and his team at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a simple synthetic pathway for enzymatic carbon fixation based on thermodynamic and kinetic calculations. The POAP cycle relies on only four enzymes involved, pyruvate...
23-12 Researchers at CAS Institute of Oceanology find light-independent pathway for astaxanthin accumulation in Haemtococcus
A research team led by LIU Jianguo from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that light-independent metabolic pathways, in addition to light-dependent metabolic pathways, can also regulate...
22-12 A methanogenic archaebacterium can form methane from long-chain alkanes and thus facilitate exploitation of depleted oil fields
Methane is usually produced from petroleum by consortia of petrolem-degrading bacteria and methanobacteria. A team from Shenzhen University, the Chengdu Biogas Institute and the Max-Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in Bremen has now isolated an archaebacterium...
24-12 China to boost sci-tech innovation targeting carbon neutrality and foster female scientists
According to a revised Law on Progress of Science and Technology, China will strongly support the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and achieving carbon neutrality. It also demands establishing and improving a sound laboratory system led by national...
16-12 China will push battery recycling of new-energy electric vehicles (NEV)
According to the Ministry of Industry and information Technology MIIT, new regulations will encourage the recycling of batteries through cooperation of NEV and battery manufacturers, echelon utilisation enterprises and scrap automobile recycling companies. Data from...
6-12 Uranium extraction from seawater using bionic graded porous membrane
WEN Liping and colleagues at the CAS Institute of Physical and Chemical Technology have developed a bionic graded porous adsorbent membrane based on an intrinsic microporous polymer. The decreasing pore size structure allows uranyl ions to diffuse rapidly in the...
26-11 China promotes public science education
According to an evaluation of the Ministry of Science and Technology MOST, the number of science and technology museums and science and technology museums nationwide increased to 1525 in 2020. Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, however, the number of...
USTC develops bio inspired polyimide-mica nanocomposite film with high resistance to low earth orbit environments
Composite polyimide materials protect exterior surfaces of spacecraft in low Earth orbits from oxygen radicals, UV and high temperatures. Shuhong Yu's team at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) took inspiration from the brick mortar...
23-11 China and Pakistan open first „belt and road“ hydropower plant, 720 MW
Under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Energy Cooperation, the plant was built by China’s Three Gorges Group, together with schools, hospitals, roads and other public welfare projects for the local communities. It provides some 4,500 jobs for the local community...
22-11 A novel type of assay for .alpha.-glucosidase or inhibitors of this enzyme
Yan-Ping Shi, Jun-Li Yang and colleagues at the Lanzhou Institute for Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a sensitive detection for α-glucosidase activity in natural product extracts or blood serum. They used...
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