The “Zhongqiu 1 Well” in the Kucha depression at the intersection of the Tarim Basin and the South Tianshan orogenic belt has become the main area for the construction of the 30 million-ton oil and gas field in the Tarim Oilfield. According to China Economic...
The manned submarine developed by Shanghai Ocean University and West Lake University has reportedly exceeded twice a depth of 10.000 m during diving tests. Japan JST China news release, December 13, 2018
The lunar probe launched on Dec. 8 was decelerated to orbit the moon and choose an appropriate time for landing at the distant side of the moon. The scientific tasks, apport from surveying terrain and landforms, will be on low-frequency radio astronomical observation....
According to a statement of China Great Wall Industry Co., the company will start construction of a satellite system Hongyan which will allow users access to their exact position accurate to about 10 centimeters in less than one minute, no matter where they are, The...
The distributed digital control system DCS can supervise up to 200 nuclear reactors and initiate automatic shut-down in case of problems. The system was developed in China and is considered there as the safest control system hitherto developed. China at present...
The Chengdu Literature Information Center and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have published a website “Stem Cell Innovation Engine”, http://stemcell.kmcloud.ac.cn, which tries to...
WANG Feng and colleagues have used a typical dilute fermentation broth of Clonstridium acetobutylicum containing ABE (acetone–butanol–ethanol–water) and transformed the mixture to 4-heptanone (4-HPO), using tin-doped ceria (Sn-ceria) as a Guerbet-catalyst. Selectivity...
Zhejiang University has introduced a four-legged robot that can walk and climb stairs. “Shadow” can lift objects weighing 20 kilograms, is one meter long, 60 centimeters high and weighs 70 kilograms. The robot is fully electric, has a charged operating...
As shown by Haibo TAN and colleagues at CAS South China Botanical Garden, rhodomyrtosone B shows high antibacterial activity with a MIC of 0.62 – 1.25 µg/L against MRSA and 2.5 µg/L against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. They showed that the mechanism of...
The groups of Tao JIANG and Xiangxi WANG have solved the structure of the CRISPR-CAS complex of Thermococcus onnurineus by cryo electronmicroscopy. It is the hitherto simplest structure of such complex and might be developed into a new engineering tool. CAS news...
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