The unusual dark greenish and glistening “gel-like” substance in a crater on the far side of the moon has attracted widespread interest following its discovery…
Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock’s feathers or the bright warning coloration of toxic frogs to the pearl-white camouflage…
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) is the largest telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world. Extragalactic neutral hydrogen detection is one of…
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being observed. X-ray satellite observations spotted…
The invention of chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented…
A pair of gigantic gamma-ray bubbles centered on the core of the Milky Way galaxy were discovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope 10 years…
New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in China. Newly released genomes from Neolithic East Asia have unveiled a missing piece of human…
Is the simplest chemical reaction really that simple? Most people think that quantum theory, which describes the motion of molecules and atomic and subatomic particles,…
Recently, Prof. YANG Xueming from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. YANG Tiangang from the Southern University…
Chinese researchers have developed a pulsed optically pumped (POP) atomic clock with a frequency stability of 4.7 × 10-15 at 104 seconds based on a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…