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In March, spring is harmonious, everything is racing, the symphony of spring is playing in the land of Shenzhou, and an EMU train passes through the countryside of Wutang Town, Xingning District, Nanning City, Guangxi Province (drone photo). Xinhua News Agency photo by Ma Huabin
Message stations
●On the 10th, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration of Taxation jointly issued the "List of Duty-free Imported Science Popularization Supplies during the 14th Five-Year Plan Period (First Batch)", and the relevant importing units can handle the tax reduction and exemption procedures for imported science popularization supplies on the list in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Customs. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
● On the 10th, Yang Zhongqi, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chief expert of the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences, said at the third "member channel" of the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference that in recent years, with the promotion of natural forest protection projects and major biodiversity conservation projects, the living environment of the Siberian tiger has been greatly restored. There are now 50 Siberian tigers in Siberian Tiger and Leopard National Park, and 10 new tiger cubs have been monitored. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
New discoveries
Recently, the research team of Christina Harvey at the University of Michigan in the United States studied the wing deformation ability of 22 bird species, and found that bird flight may have both inherent stability and instability. The findings contradict common assumptions that birds evolved from stability to improved mobility. The relevant research results have been published in the academic journal Nature. (Source: China News Network)
● On the 10th, the Oilseed Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences announced that the team of academician Wang Hanzhong of the Institute discovered selenium-rich food - selenium-rich rapeseed sprouts, and revealed the enrichment characteristics of this vegetable as a new type of functional vegetable in nutrients, such as selenium, vitamin E, special anti-cancer thiosides, magnesium, zinc, etc., and successfully expanded the source of green selenium-rich food and the new way of multi-functional utilization of rapeseed. The relevant research results have been published in the international journal Food. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Pure technology
● British Deep Thinking, in collaboration with a research team at the University of Venice in Italy, developed a deep neural network called Ithaca and used it to restore, date and locate ancient Greek inscriptions. The researchers say the recovery accuracy can reach 72%. The results were published in the journal Nature on March 10. (Source: China Science Daily)
●On the 9th, Yan Xiyun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a paper in the journal Advanced Science. The paper reported for the first time the role of the CD146 molecule in the pro-inflammatory polarization of obesity-associated adipose tissue macrophages, providing a new therapeutic strategy for metabolic syndromes caused by obesity. (Source: Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Look at the world
This is the scene of a transplant surgery filmed at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, USA, on Jan. 7. Xinhua News Agency/Reuters
● The University of Maryland Medical Center in the United States released news on the 9th that the patient who received pig heart transplant surgery at the center died on the 8th, and the exact cause of death is not yet known. This particular transplant was the first in the world, and the patient survived for about two months. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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Tianjin astronomy enthusiast Ma Qiang photographs Venus in the early morning of March 6, 2022 near the town of Bamen in Tianjin's Baodi District. Xinhua News Agency
Venus and Mars will soon be "in the same frame" on March 12. Astronomical science experts said that the visual effect of the "same frame" of gold and fire is obviously better than that of Mercury and Saturn "in the same frame", if the weather is good, the atmosphere transparency is high, and the interesting celestial phenomenon of the "same frame" of gold and fire is expected to be observed with the naked eye. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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