China Earthquake Administration sees advances in disaster prevention

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...

Chang’e-4’s lunar lander sprouted cotton-seeds for 9 days

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...

Genome editing may lead to improved vascular cells

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...

China announces first graphene national standard

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...

Beijing wants to attract more global talents in S&T

According to Beijing’s Mayor CHEN Jining, the number of national high-tech enterprises in Beijing reached 25,000 in 2018. On average, 199 high-tech startups opened in the city every day, and the city has 80 startup firms each worth more than $1 billion. Beijing set up...

People’s Daily announces China’s top 10 S&T achievements in 2018

According to a rating by People’s Daily, an official newspaper of China’s communist party, the following 10 achievements were most noteworthy: Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar by China’s spherical radio telescope FASTSuccessful launch of the environmental...