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Top Mathematician Secretly Leaves US For China
Recently, Jang Yang, a world-class Chinese mathematician in his 70s, resigned from his tenured professorship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and moved back to China with his family. He has been appointed chief scientist at Sunyasan University in Guangdong, becoming one of the most significant figures in the wave of overseas Chinese scholars returning home. In a Continue reading
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Chinese, international scientists urge greater collaboration for sustainable development
Chinese and international scientists have called on the global scientific community to unite and make greater contributions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through continued exploration at the frontiers of science and technology. The remarks were made in Beijing on Saturday at a seminar titled “Sustainable Development and Inclusive Collaboration: Responsibilities of the Scientific Community,” Continue reading
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China Achieves Solar-powered Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production
Chinese researchers recently achieved a breakthrough in “photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production.” The scientists did this by performing “structural reshaping” and “element substitution” on a semiconductor material, they significantly enhanced the efficiency of converting water into clean hydrogen energy by using sunlight. Current solar-driven hydrogen production primarily relies on two methods — one uses Continue reading
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Chinese and Swedish scientists create hybrid high-yield rice that drastically cuts methane emissions
Collaboration between Chinese and Swedish researchers has breed a high-yield rice variety that emits up to 70 per cent less methane than normal rice and almost doubles the yield of common rice varieties. The research team, comprising experts from Hunan Agricultural University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, successfully created a rice Continue reading
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Top Chinese scientists abandon US positions – universities losing hundreds of billions of dollars
Research and Development (R&D) is a major profit center for the top universities in the United States. Besides the nearly $100 billion they earn in grants from the US government and private sources, university-based researchers create patents and inventions that generate many more billions annually. China is the largest foreign source of scientists and researchers Continue reading
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Chinese scientists discover mineral crystal enriched with water molecules on the moon
Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with scholars from several renowned Chinese universities, discovered an unidentified mineral crystal enriched with water molecules on the moon from the Chang’e-5 lunar samples, a breakthrough that indicates that for the first time, molecular water was found in lunar soil, the Xinhua News Continue reading
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