Nankai University team develops synthetic spider silk

A team around LU Zunfeng at Nankai University in Tianjin has prepared an artificial spider silk made from polyacrylic acid and silica nanoparticles. It consists of hierarchical core-sheath structured hydrogel fibers, which are reinforced by Zn ion doping and twist...

China’s top 10 advances in agriculture 2018

At the Forum 2019 on Science and Technology for Agricultural and Rural Development in in Nanjing, a poll by experts on the 10 most significant advances in agricultural science were announced. These were: 1. Metabolomics in search of the “lost tomato...

CAS announces “Earth Big Data Prototype”

At the China Digital Earth Convention in Beijing, an “Earth Big Data Prototype” system was announced which integrates “balls” of big data scattered around the earth into a “necklace” of big data through standardized display. This project is part of the 2030 Agenda of...

Nanjing team prepares porc muscle meat from porc stem cells

A team led by ZHOU Guanghong at Nanjing Agricultural University cultivated pig muscle stem cells for 20 days and harvested 5 g of muscle meat. This is the first meat developed from muscle stem cells in China. According to Zhou, the cultured meat had similar texture...

China’s next tokamak fusion reactor to start operation in 2020

At the 1st China Fusion Energy Conference held in Leshan, Sichuan, it was announced that “Chinese Circulator No. 2M”, a next-generation tokamak device located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, will start operation in 2020. “China Circulator No. 2M” adopts advanced...

China trains 600 scholars from ASEAN countries in geosciences

LING Yueming, vice minister of natural resources, said at the ongoing 10th China-ASEAN Mining Cooperation Forum and Exhibition that 100 students from ASEAN countries will come to China to pursue a master’s or doctoral degree in geosciences, mining or related...