A cutting-edge astronomical spacecraft jointly developed by China and France is scheduled to be deployed in orbit in June, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Innovation Academy for Microsatellites in Shanghai, which built the satellite.
The origin of human music was a mystery highlighted as one of the 125 most challenging scientific questions in a 2005 issue of Science journal. But now, a group of scientists from China, the United States and Canada have delved into the question by focusing their research on the mechanism and evolution of song coordination in animals, especially in three closely related species of wild gibbons.
The team departed at an altitude of 8,300 meters at around 3 am Tuesday and arrived at the 8,830-meter weather station after over eight hours of arduous climbing.
The lab is located at 2,400 meters under the surface of Jinping Hydropower Station. It has a store of xenon, one of the few materials that interact with dark matter, and the cosmic rays that commonly interfere with attempts to observe dark matter generally cannot penetrate to such a depth underground.
Chinese geologist Liu Dongsheng, physicist Cheng Kaijia, mathematician Wu Wenjun and agronomist Yuan Longping are chosen as portraits on the stamps.