A group of scientists have discovered a fossil bird dating back about 110 million years, which is the first ever found to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen. The fossil represents a new species, Avimaia schweitzerae, belonging to a group called the Enantiornithes which was abundant around the world and co-existed with dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period.
Chinese scientists have identified a critically endangered new species of Paris, a valuable herb in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), in Southwest China's Yunnan province. This new species was named Paris lihengiana to pay tribute to Li Heng, who is accredited to identifying over half of the world's known Paris species and promoting its planting to enrich Chinese villagers in remote mountains.
In late March 2019, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or SMILE, a China-ESA joint mission, was adopted for implementation by the European Space Agency (ESA). The adoption, as a milestone event, signifies the kick-off of the engineering phase of the joint scientific mission, which aims to study the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth magnetosphere.
The Russian and Chinese Academies of Sciences plan to sign an agreement on cooperation in exploring the Tibetan Plateau in July 2019, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) President Alexander Sergeyev told TASS on Monday.
PAN Jianwei, a renowned Chinese physicist and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) won the 2019 R. W. Wood Prize presented by the Optical Society of America (OSA). It is the first time that a Chinese scientist has won the prize with a local research project since the award was established in 1975.
Researchers from Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a German company SAP jointly developed an intelligent manufacturing solution to satisfy the demands of customization. It is expected to be applied in the manufacturing of automobiles, elevators and smartphones.
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