In a recent work, Prof. WANG Junzhi from Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), together with his colleagues Prof. GAO Yu, Drs. ZHANG Zhiyu (currently in UK) and FANG Min at Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), detected both SiO and CH3OH mega-masers near the center of Serfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068 using the IRAM 30m telescope. The work was published in the online journal 'Nature Communications' on November 11th.
Mechanical property of granular materials in landslide is of great significance. A recent research demonstrates that the numerical triaxial apparatus based on discrete element method is able to simulate and reproduce the triaxial tests in laboratory, which is published in Science China: Physics Mechanics & Astronomy 2014 vol.57(12) by professor Jiachun Li from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The title is "Simulation of triaxial response of granular materials by modified DEM".
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb.), a forage and cool-season turfgrass species, is widely grown in the temperate regions of the world. As one of the limiting factors, high temperature greatly affects forage production and turf management of tall fescue. There is no complete genome sequences of tall fescue. Accelerated effort should be made to acquire transcriptomes of tall fescue in response to high-temperature stress. Prof. FU Jinmin and Dr. HU Tao from Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the responses of two tall fescue genotypes, heat tolerant PI578718 and heat sensitive PI234881, to high temperature at a global transcriptional level using an high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) approach.
In a new study published in the Beijing-based journal SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers from Beijing Normal University, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, present new calculations on carbon emissions triggered by the expansion of cropland in this region between 1680 and 1980.
Phononic crystals (PnCs) composed of periodic elastic materials prove to have a property of band gaps. With the unique property, PnCs show potential for applications such as elastic filters, couplers, resonators and waveguides. Much research has been conducted with the bulk acoustic waves based on the two-dimensional (2D) PnCs.
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING, a.k.a MITA, ERIS or MPYS) is a central component in innate immunity against DNA virus. A research team led by Prof. WANG Chen at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, demonstrated that K27-linked poly-ubiquitination of STING catalyzed by the ER-associated E3 ligase AMFR is essential for STING-mediated signaling and innate antiviral response.
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