Model Simulation Experiments Improve Monsoon Forecasting
Monsoons can have a significant impact on human populations all around the world, bringing heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides that can damage crops…
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Space-Time Phase Modulated Metasurface Makes Light Reflect Only in One Direction
Light propagation is usually reciprocal, meaning that the trajectory of light traveling in one direction is identical from that in the opposite direction. Breaking reciprocity…
Chinese Plant Biodiversity at Risk Due to Human Activity
With intensifying human activity, many species are threatened with extinction. However, many other species have expanded their range. Is there a general rule to identify…
New Ghost Imaging Nanoscopy Approach Captures the Details of Processes Occurring in Living Cells
Ghost imaging speeds up super-resolution microscopy: New nanoscopy approach poised to capture biological processes occurring inside cells at submillisecond speeds. Researchers have used advanced imaging…
New Flexible Transparent Solar Cells Could Be Used in Buildings, Vehicles and Portable Electronics
Freestanding Microwire-Array Enables Flexible Solar Windows TSCs are emerging devices that combine the advantages of visible transparency and light-to-electricity conversion. One of the valuable prospective…
Further Evidence Discovered for Dwarf Galaxies That Are Inexplicably Deficient in Dark Matter
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC), Peking University and Tsinghua University have found a special population of dwarf…
Surprise Discovery of Black Hole in Our Galaxy That “Should Not Even Exist”
Update (January 10, 2020): A team of astronomers from the Universities of Erlangen-Nürnberg and Potsdam discovered that this object may not be a black hole…
New Flying Worker Robots for Skyscraper Maintenance
Skyscrapers are rising rapidly around the world, continuously transforming city skylines. However, their repair and maintenance is becoming more and more difficult. So, who can…
Intelligent Metasurface Imager Can Remotely Monitor People Using Radio-Frequency Probe Signals
The Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber physical systems have opened up possibilities for smart cities and smart homes, and are changing the way for…
New Results on Black Hole and Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries From Insight-HXMT
Scientists with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) team presented their new results on black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries during a press conference…
Has Global Warming Stopped?
As a result of industrialization, the carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased continuously over the past 100 years, which is considered as the…
Weathering Antarctic Storms and the Importance of Weather Balloon Data
Observational data from radiosondes deployed in Antarctica improve the forecasting accuracy for severe Antarctic cyclones, according to a Japanese research team led by the Kitami…
Evidence of How a Dwarf Galaxy Contributes to Growth of the Milky Way
Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are suggested to be the main building blocks of our Galaxy. However, it is unclear how many and what…
Astronomers Reveal a Warped and Twisted Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly ‘warped’ and twisted far away from the Milky…
Mass Extinction Happened in a Geological ‘Instant’
It took less than 30,000 years and maybe only thousands, to kill more than 90% of sea creatures and most land species, according to the…
Fossils Reveal New Insight on Mesozoic Pollinating Insects
Insect pollination played an important role in the evolution of angiosperms. Little is known, however, about ancient pollination insects and their niche diversity during the…
Researchers Discover Two New Chinese Dinosaurs: Bannykus and Xiyunykus
Digit reduction occurs many times in tetrapod evolution, and the most famous example is the ‘horse series’ of North America. An international research team announced…
When Did Animals Leave Their First Footprint on Earth?
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong put the first footprint on the moon. But when did animals leave the first footprint on Earth? Recently, an…