China Techbite with Joe

02/08/2023

Investigators at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China are verifying LK-99 crystal that can be magnetically levitated for the first time. It's still unclear whether it is an authentic superconductor. Wait and see.

31/07/2023

A robotic whale shark is put on show at a marine park. It's designed to entertain. I guess the biomimetic fish can do more.
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30/06/2023

What a COLOSSUS. The passenger liner Adora Magic City is to be delivered at . The 323m-long, 135,500-tonne buster has 2,826 cabins to accomodate 6,500 passengers.

28/06/2023

22/10/2022

20/10/2022

The world's first high-altitude pilot solar power station has been combined into grid. Sitting at a 4,000-meter-high grassland in SW China's Sichuan Province, the solar farm can save 390,000 tonne coal and reduce 1 million tonne carbon dioxide each year.

20/10/2022

China's Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) telescope detected an X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and confirmed that it originated from a magnetar in the Milky Way.

12/10/2022

The Chinese-built 344-MW Kokhav Hayarden pumped storage hydropower plant, lying 275 meters below sea level, is expected to be operational in early 2023 and will become the largest pumped storage power plant in Israel

11/10/2022

Chinese scientists at Tianjin University develop a facile strategy for spinning superstrong silk fibers in a metal-ion coagulation bath using regenerated silkworm fibroins. Its tensile strength reaches 2.0 GPa, 70%+ higher than the average tenacity of dragline silks.

10/10/2022

A Chinese team has realized, for the first time in the world, the ultra-high-precision time-frequency dissemination, a technique to monitor and synchronize clocks, over a long distance, more than 100 kilometers. The scientific achievement could help set higher standards for the global timing, navigation and positioning, the wide-area quantum communication and the testing of physics basic principles. The research group led by Pan Jianwei from University of Science and Technology of China described in a study published in the Nature this week the time-frequency dissemination with an instability of less than 4E-19 at 10,000 seconds through a free-space link of 113 kilometers in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

10/10/2022

An offshore rocket launch in China.

09/10/2022

An Int'l team led by a Chinese scientist found Enceladus' ocean may be abundant in dissolved phosphates that could support the origin and proliferation of potential microorganism, filling a gap in the study of the habitability of the Enceladus' water. Published in PNAS.

09/10/2022

Kuafu-1, or ASO-S, a solar exploration satellite lifted off Sunday, headed for space and launching China one step closer to illuminating the sun's secrets.

07/10/2022

An offshore rocket launch in China on Oct. 7.

04/10/2022

Astronauts' tasks in glovebox. Space Station. lab.

03/10/2022

Chinese virus scientists demonstrated in a paper published in Nature that the century-old drug could inhibit the activity of the virus polymerase in an enzymatic assay.

01/10/2022

A trove of fossils in China unearthed in rocks dating back some 440 million years showed new fish species and the earliest tooth, offering concrete evidence of the origin and earliest evolution of the jawed vertebrates. Findings are published as a cover story in the Nature.

30/09/2022

The Indonesian food and drugs agency (BPOM) approved the emergency use of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine developed by Walvax Biotechnology, the first authorization for a China-developed COVID shot based on the novel mRNA technology.

30/09/2022

China's large passenger plane C919 gets the type certificate, expected to be delivered by the end of year.

30/09/2022

A study in China shows that dinosaurs are on the road to extinction much earlier than previously believed, and the catastrophic impact 66 million years ago might only be the last straw. The low biodiversity of non-avian dinosaurs took place ~2 mln years before those reptiles died out.

28/09/2022

Yunxian-III: A well-preserved skull fossil of homo erectus unearthed in Central China's Hubei Province.

28/09/2022

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a small catarrhine dating back 7 million to 8 million years in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Named Yuanmoupithecus xiaoyuan, this species has proved to be the earliest known gibbon.

27/09/2022

A Long March-6 rocket carrying Shiyan-16A, Shiyan-16B and Shiyan-17 satellites blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province, Sept. 27.

26/09/2022

China's plan of a planetary defense test: Two spacecrafts to be launched by Long March 3B in 2026. One arrives at 2020PN1 for close observation before the other makes impact. It's like a mission with NASA's & ESA's HERA combined in one.

26/09/2022

China's Mars rover report an in situ ground-penetrating radar survey of Martian subsurface structure in a southern marginal area of Utopia Planitia, showing an approximately 70-m-thick, multi-layered structure below a less than 10-m-thick regolith.
The new radar image suggests the occurrence of episodic hydraulic flooding sedimentation that is interpreted to represent the basin infilling of Utopia Planitia during the Late Hesperian to Amazonian.
While no direct evidence for the existence of liquid water was found within the radar detection depth range, we cannot rule out the presence of saline ice in the subsurface of the landing area.

26/09/2022

China's space engineer Liu Zhusheng inducted into the Hall of Fame.

25/09/2022

An installation art show in , inspired by Liu Cixin's sci-fi works.

24/09/2022

Chinese scientists report five microscopy structures of a chitin synthase from the devastating soybean root rot pathogenic oomycete, representing the apo, GlcNAc-bound, nascent chitin oligomer-bound, UDP-bound and chitin synthase inhibitor nikkomycin Z-bound states of the enzyme, providing detailed views into the multiple steps of chitin biosynthesis and its competitive inhibition.

23/09/2022

A group of Chinese scientists from Tongji University developed a face mask that can detect exposure of influenza and the coronavirus in air droplets from a 10-minute conversation with an infected person, and then alert the wearers via their mobile devices.