【Today's Cover】
View of Pangong Lake taken on the 8th. Pangong Lake is located in the western part of Ritu County, Ali Region, Tibet, with an average elevation of 4200 meters above sea level. Its peculiarity is that the salt content of the water increases from east to west, and the lake water takes on different colors such as dark green, light green and dark blue in the sun. Shen Hongbing Photo Source: Xinhua News Agency
Message stations
Sanya station data receiving work site source: Chinese Academy of Sciences Of Space Academy
● On the 12th, the reporter learned from the Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Academy of Aerospace) that the Chinese Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station of the Academy of Space Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the Ground Station) successfully received data from Gaofen No. 3 03 satellite. By noon on the 12th, the ground station received a total of about 44GB of satellite data, and all the received data was processed normally. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Source: Xinhua News Agency
● On the 12th, Wu Zunyou, chief expert of epidemiology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council that according to the existing research, there is no evidence to prove that there is a new coronavirus adsorbed in the fly, and so far there are no reports on the infection caused by the fly. In general, the new crown virus does not spread directly from infected people to healthy people in a free viral manner. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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●The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport on the 12th that in order to further coordinate the prevention and control of the epidemic on highway traffic and to ensure the smooth flow of the road, if it is found that the situation of "one-size-fits-all" persuasion to return, the illegal setting up of epidemic prevention checkpoints, and the unauthorized blocking of road transport channels, it is necessary to supervise and urge immediate rectification through serious reports, interviews, and other forms; if the work of ensuring the smooth flow of goods is not effective, seriously affecting the smooth flow of freight, causing a shortage of material supply, and causing negative public opinion in society, the relevant units and personnel should be investigated and held accountable in accordance with laws and regulations. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
New discoveries
Baise Ichthyosaurus (top) and Chaohu Ichthyosaurus (bottom) Restoration Map Source: China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
●Recently, the research team of Associate Professor Han Fenglu of the School of Earth Sciences of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) reported a fossil of a Pre-Triassic ichthyosaur from the Longlin County, Baise City, Guangxi Province, China, which is a new genus worldwide and is named Stout Baiseosaurus. The ichthyosaur is 3 meters long, cute in appearance, has stronger swimming ability, and is currently the largest fossil of the early Triassic ichthyosaur found in China. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Huize Dian biplank ecological restoration map source: Luo Yanchao, doctoral student of the Institute of Paleovertebrates, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Recently, the Journal of Systems Paleontology reported a new genus of lungfish fossilized from the Middle Devonian 390 million years ago, the Huize dian dipteropid. Produced in Huize County, Qujing, Yunnan, the Huize Dian dipteropid is the 9th Devonian lungfish found on the mainland so far. The researchers found that the Huize Dian dipter may not be able to eat hard shelled foods like other lungfish, and speculated that it may eat aquatic mollusks or even other fish by smoking. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Pure technology
Image source: Visual China
Recently, the research team of the School of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong has developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm that can automatically obtain supervision signals from hundreds of thousands of X-ray image reports to train predictive models, significantly reducing labor costs by up to 90%, and its prediction accuracy exceeds that of all hand-annotated data to train artificial intelligence medical image diagnosis models. (Source: China News Network)
Look at the world
Image source: Visual China
●On the 12th, the Central Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Headquarters of the Republic of Korea reported that the first case of XL infection of the new recombinant strain of Omikejong was found in South Korea, and an epidemiological investigation of the case is currently being carried out. The confirmed case, which has received three doses of covid-19 vaccination, was confirmed on 23 March and is currently asymptomatic. (Source: CCTV News Client)
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● On the 11th local time, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Health said that there are about 3 million doses of new crown vaccine in Germany that will expire at the end of June, and the existing vaccine in Germany exceeds domestic demand. Vaccinations in Germany have fallen sharply at this stage, averaging just 33,000 doses per day over the past week. During germany's intensive introduction of intensive injections in December last year, sometimes more than 1 million people were vaccinated in a day. (Source: CCTV News Client)
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