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Celebration of Spring Festival in China. Credit: Zheng Lin Most Chinese working in the cities return to work today after a 7-day national holiday of…
Ecological reconstruction of Cretophengodes azari. Credit: Dinghua Yang Bioluminescence has fascinated people since time immemorial. The majority of organisms able to produce their own light…
Cellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of organismal aging. It is regulated by both genetic…
591 high velocity stars’ positions and orbits. Credit: Kong Xiao of NAOC A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy…
Figs and fig wasps. Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan…
The reptile millirobot changes from caterpillar motion to concertina motion after reprogramming. Credit: City University of Hong Kong Millirobots that can adapt to unstructured environments,…
The site for astronomy at Dome A. Credit: SHANG Zhaohui A research team led by Prof. SHANG Zhaohui from National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese…
Reptile in trade. Credit: Alice Hughes Keeping reptiles is fashionable, but what are the consequences for wild reptiles? More reptiles are kept as pets than…
Insight-HXMT discovers QPO generated in the closest jet to the black hole. Credit: IHEP Insight-HXMT, China’s first space X-ray astronomical satellite, has discovered a low-frequency…
Artist’s reconstruction of mating ostracods. Credit: YANG Dinghu Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important…
Coronal magnetic field lines obtained from the PFSS model. Credit: Z.-H. Yang et al., Science (2020) The Sun is a magnetized star. Its magnetic field…
Schematic of femtosecond laser fabrication of a monolayer TMDC lens. Inset: (i) AFM image of a monolayer TMDC single crystal, and (ii) Schematic of femtosecond…
Figure 1. Impact melt breccia and surrounding context. Credit: CNSA, CLEP, and AIR The unusual dark greenish and glistening “gel-like” substance in a crater on…
Comparisons between original and altered metallic colors in cleptine wasps. Credit: NIGPAS Nature is full of colors, from the radiant shine of a peacock’s feathers…
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is a radio telescope located in southwest China. It consists of a fixed 500 m (1,600 ft) diameter…
A black hole including the heartbeat signal observed in 2007 and 2018. Credit: Dr Chichuan Jin, of the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences…
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…
Fermi Bubbles artist’s concept. A pair of gigantic gamma-ray bubbles centered on the core of the Milky Way galaxy were discovered by the Fermi Gamma-ray…
Skull of Qihe 2, a ~8,400-year-old individual from Qihe Cave, Fujian, China. Credit: FAN Xuechun New ancient genomic research reveals information about human history in…