The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Science of South Africa, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy, academies of the BRICS countries signed the BRICS Academies of Sciences Beijing Declaration on Big Data for Sustainable Development on June 16.

Prof. TIAN Zhigang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), has been elected to the Academia Europaea 2022 (clinical & veterinary science) on May 30th for his excellence and contribution to tumor immunology. TIAN, a medicine and health scientist from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, is widely recognized as the pioneer of NK cells and immunology.

The International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) under the auspices of UNESCO held open online courses to celebrate this year's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, which falls on June 11, 2022. The event was held in both Beijing and Hengyang, a city in Central China's Hunan Province, and was broadcast live through Tencent Live, Bilibili Live, and other platforms, attracting nearly 72,000 audience.

A corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum), also known as titan arum, is blooming at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Its bizarre appearance and sheer size have long attracted curious visitors and avid gardeners alike. Many people queue up to see the titan arum flower with their noses stuffed, because the flower releases a revolting stench like rotting flesh, but not the fragrant scent of most flowers.

A group of researchers from CSNS recently finished a beam chopping test of the Fermi neutron chopper prototype. The chopper worked accurately producing several expected monochromatic energy neutron beams, marking its successful development as China's first Fermi neutron chopper prototype. The Fermi neutron chopper is used to select monochromatic energy neutron beams at 10~1500 meV of neutron energy and is a decisive factor in the instrument’s energy resolution and count rate, thus making it a key piece of equipment for time-of-flight inelastic neutron scattering instruments.

China's sci-tech progressed faster in the last 10 years than any other decade in history, Vice Minister of Science and Technology Li Meng said at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday. "China's change in the sci-tech field was historical and comprehensive," he told reporters. "We have become a nation of innovations and part of the global innovation system."

The BRICS Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development was held both in Beijing and online on April 26, 2022. The two-day event was co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academy of Science of South Africa , Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. The forum provided an academic platform for over 400 BRICS scientists, engineers, policy-makes, stakeholders, and representatives from relevant international organizations to explore how to address regional and global challenges to sustainable development and lend impetus to the implementation of UN 2030 Agenda through international cooperation in science, technology, and innovation, especially based on big data.

China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS), a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), confirmed on April 21 that it received data from the newly launched atmospheric environmental monitoring satellite.

China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (RSGS), a major national S&T infrastructure hosted by the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), confirmed that it received data from the newly launched GF-3 03 satellite on April 11. The satellite, featuring a C-band multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR), was launched on April 7 as part of China's civil space infrastructure.

Ecosystem-based Adaptation through South-South Cooperation (EbA South, 2013-2020) has been selected by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to present its story, successes and lessons learned as a Good Practice Brief of GEF-funded project. The GEF secretariat has selected it from several nominations by various GEF agencies, taking into consideration approaches used to generate multiple global environmental benefits and co-benefits, and to achieve clear results and/or sustainability.

JI Jie, from the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was elected as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, as the organization announced its 2022 class of Fellows on March 9th. JI is recognized by the Combustion Institute fellowship for his outstanding contributions to the fundamental fire research on combustion and flame dynamics under restricted air entrainment.

Beijing, as the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has seen continuous blue skies greeting Olympic athletes last and this month. Air quality is regarded as an important factor for the events, which might affect the performance of athletes and cause possible health problems. To limit pollution and ensure good air quality during the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the ensuing Paralympics which opened on February 4 and March 13 separately, joint prevention and control of air pollution was conducted in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region and surrounding areas, including Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning provinces.