The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is a plant research station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Southwest China's Yunnan province. Now 60 years old, the garden fosters over 13-thousand species of plants in its more than 30 living collections. Let's now take a look at one of the most diverse botanical gardens for outdoor plants in the world.
Chinese scientists have recreated the process of Earth's first mass extinction with high accuracy, which will contribute to the study of biological evolution. Scientists in east China's Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said they made the achievement under a comprehensive stratigraphic framework about three times more accurate than before.
Science facilities on China's planned Tiangong space station could support hundreds of space research projects after it's completed in 2022. Sixteen experiment racks will be installed in the core module and two lab capsules of the space station, and an extravehicular experiment platform will be built.
A large community of an endangered plant species has been discovered in Houhe National Nature Reserve in Central China's Hubei Province, according to the reserve. The plant, Changiostyrax dolichocarpa, was spotted during a survey conducted by a researching team of Wuhan Botanical Garden (WBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with staff in the reserve.
An asteroid has been named after leading Chinese astrophysicist Zhou Youyuan, with approval from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the China Science Daily reported Monday. Asteroid Zhouyouyuan, coded 120730, was discovered in 1997 by astronomers with the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong observatory in north China, according to an IAU communique.
Scientists from the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences prepared a new needle-shaped sensor based on the acupuncture stainless steel needle, through the processes of insulation, sealing and functionalization with nanomaterials.
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