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Artist`s rendering of what the bony fish may have looked like. [Museum Victoria, Australia] Chinese scientists' discovery of an intact and ancient fish fossil might bring the search for modern vertebrate origins out of the Devonian age (416 to 359 million years ago) and into the ...
Fossils of Tianyulong Confuciusi Dinosaur fossils recently discovered in northeast China's Liaoning province have bewildered scientists about the evolutionary development of feathers. The sub-adult Tianyulong Confuciusi, which was covered with feather-like structures, dates back ...
CAS Academician Wu Chuanjun Senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Wu Chuanjun died in Beijing on Friday at the age of 91. Wu was one of the country's leading geographers who promoted studies for the utilization of land resources and agricultural development. ...
Photo Source: China.org.cn Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert. The well-preserved fossils, excavated by a team of Chinese and American scientists, offer a rare bounty ...
First of 34 wind turbine The first wind turbine at the offshore wind power electricity plant near Donghai Bridge was installed over the weekend. The plant will have a total of 34 wind turbines and is expected to be in use before the 2010 World Expo. The wind turbine is about 90 ...
China has successfully developed the supercomputer Dawning 5000A, which is capable of 2,335 trillion FLOPS (Floating-point operations per second). The computer passed the appraisal by the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Thursday, making China the second country with capability of ...
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) launched a website (http://www.cas.ac.cn/10060/index.htm) on April 10 to help enterprises use its large-scale scientific facilities for free. CAS will make 1000 general instruments and equipments available to small and medium-sized enterprises ...
China's Compass-G2 navigation satellite is launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 15, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Gang) China successfully launched its second navigation satellite early Wednesday, as ...
Multiwavelength X-ray / infrared image of SN 1572 or Tycho's Nova, the remnant of a Type Ia supernova.(NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/Calar Alto O. Krause et al.) A team of astronomers, led by Dr. Bo Wang from the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new ...
Methane emissions from rice paddies may have been about 3 times overestimated, according to a new study carried out by researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Total emission amount of world's atmospheric methane a major greenhouse gas from rice paddies in 2000 is 25...
A research team led by Prof. Wang Xiaolin with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) completed the preliminary renovation of the largest dinosaur egg in Tiantai, Zhejiang province on April 24. The ...
Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a third-generation of synchrotron radiation light source, is completed and ready for use. Located in Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, the 1,200-million-yuan mega project is the largest scientific platform in China up to now. The ...
Chinese scientists have successfully finished a five-year upgrade aimed at keeping the country's electron-positron collider (EPC) a leading global high-tech device. With the upgrading, the collider's capability has been raised by more than 30 times, Academician Chen Hesheng, ...
An Airbus A320 plane takes off from Binhai International Airport during a test flight in Tianjin, north China, May 18, 2009. (Picture by Liu Haifeng) The first Airbus A320 plane assembled in China's northern city of Tianjin took off at 10:45 a.m. Monday for a test flight, from ...
China Ocean Development Report China's sea level will rise by 30 millimeters in the next 10 years, predicted "China's Ocean Development Report 2009", released by the State Oceanic Administration on May 15.. The report indicated that the level of Bohai Sea will go up by 29 ...
China's biggest zoological museum with more than 5000 animal specimens on exhibition opens to the public on Sunday in the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Olympic Park. The museum possesses more than 5.4 million animal specimens, making it Asia's largest animal museum. It was built ...
A rotorcraft flying robot developed by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) took part in a drill of search and rescue in disaster ruins Tuesday in Beijing. The project is part of "863 Program", China's State High-Tech Research & Development Plan. It was developed ...
China's first large-scale small water plane area twin hull (SWATH) vessel "Shiyan-1" China's first large-scale small water plane area twin hull (SWATH) vessel "Shiyan-1" set sail in Sanya, Hainan province on May 9, 2009. The new vessel "Shiyan-1" is China's first large-scale ...
China published a White Paper Monday on disaster prevention and relief efforts to mark the first anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake, as well as the nation's first "Disaster Prevention and Reduction Day," both of which fall on May 12. The white paper, released by the State ...
Prof. Peng Shige Professor Peng Shige at Shandong University, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will give a keynote speech at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in India. Peng received an invitation from the International Mathematical Union ...
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Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
Chicago unveils Chinese New Year celebrations
CHICAGO -- Chicago held a ceremony Friday at the landmark Daley Civic ...
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
UN chief, Syrian FM in verbal clash at conference
The first day of the peace conference in Montreux, was marked by ...
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Chaos on streets after three reported killed in Kiev
Three people have reportedly been killed in Ukraine's capital Kiev ...
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Panel to push financial reform in FTZ
Financial reform in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone will ...
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
Economist sees world economy strengthening in 2014
NEW YORK, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Global economy is likely to gain ...
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
China economic reform in focus at World Economic Forum
There’s been much talk of China at the World Economic Forum-and a ...
China's banks must evolve or perish
China's banks must evolve or perish
As China's traditional banks raise interest rates to claw back lost ...
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name
Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court has rejected a lawsuit ...
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
Chinese steelmakers see profits plunge
China's 77 major steel companies reported an average profit margin of ...
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi
Injured star short-track skater Wang Meng left out of China's squad for Sochi Winter Games
Injured Olympic champion Wang Meng has been ruled out of the 139...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...