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In the Huanhe River Gorge Scenic Area in Long'an District, Anyang City, Henan Province, hundreds of herons play in Moon Bay, sometimes wandering and cruising, sometimes dancing, sometimes singing, showing their charm. Source: Xinhua News Agency
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●In order to make everyone recognize the bacteria more clearly and eat the fungi with confidence, on the 24th, the Kunming Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Fungal Diversity and Green Development jointly released the "Yunnan Common Poisonous Bacteria (Poisonous Mushrooms) 2022 Edition". The 2022 edition partially updates the species from the previous plates and enlarges the photos in the plates for identification. The updated plate contains a total of two plates, including 24 common poisonous mushrooms (poisonous mushrooms) in Yunnan. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)
New discoveries
Scenery of Santorini, a well-known tourist island in Greece (infographic). Image source: Xinhua News Agency
● According to the Greek "Sino-Greek Times", recently, an article published in the international academic journal Basin Research said that Greek and other scientists found the largest known volcanic landslide traces in the Mediterranean region in the sea around santorini, a famous tourist resort in Greece. The researchers say that based on a large amount of evidence, the landslide occurred about 700,000 years ago. (Source: China News Network)
Lung cancer cells. Photo credit: Anne Weston, EM STP, The Francis Crick Institute/Science Photo Library
A large-scale study published in Science recently analyzed hundreds of millions of mutations hidden in the genomes of cancer cells in more than 12,000 patients, screening and identifying dozens of new DNA mutation signatures that may provide clues to the genetic and environmental causes of cancer. In some cases, this may also help clinicians choose the best individual treatment for a patient. (Source: China Science Daily)
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According to the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, the paleontological research team at the University of Chinese in Hong Kong recently analyzed the laser fluorescence imaging of a fossil of an ancient pterosaur and found that its body structure allowed it to take off on the surface of the water like a duck to use its limbs to get rid of the influence of water surface tension. The analysis reveals that this innate talent dates back to the Jurassic period as early as 150 million years ago, 30 million years ahead of previous discoveries. The results of the study were published in Scientific Reports. (Source: China News Network)
Pure technology
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●Recently, after years of clinical observation and analysis, the team of Professor Huang Gengwen of the Department of Pancreatic Surgery of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University constructed a prospective cohort of more than 300 cases of infectious pancreatic necrosis and a retrospective cohort of more than 6,000 cases of acute pancreatitis, and conducted a detailed data study on the "fatal law" of this rare disease in the field of acute pancreatitis. The findings were published in Digestive and Liver Diseases.
Schematic diagram of the multibody "Schrödinger's Cat", image source: Tsinghua University
Recently, the Tsinghua University team has made progress in the field of microwave quantum information processing, and for the first time, with the help of superconducting quantum circuits, successfully prepared a multibody "Schrödinger cat" state of coherent flying microwave photons, making it possible to make quantum networks and modular quantum computing based on microwave photons possible. (Source: The Paper)
Brahmaputra Multi-circle Hydrological Observation Network. Image source: Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
●Recently, researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units successfully established a multi-lap hydrological monitoring network in the Brahmaputra River Basin through systematic monitoring of the Brahmaputra River Basin, combined with existing monitoring stations in and around the basin. The results of the research were published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
Look at the world
Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 (from left to right) photographed at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan on October 12, 2017. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
In order to discharge Fukushima nuclear sewage, Tokyo Electric Power Corporation plans to build a new undersea tunnel about 1 kilometer away from the nuclear power plant. Starting at 7 a.m. local time on the 25th, TEPCO officially built the drainage outlet of the tunnel exit. On the same day, in addition to the marking of four works areas at sea, guardrails for berthing vessels were also set up. Previously, TEPCO had prepared equipment for the prior storage of sewage, but this was the first time that the project involved offshore operations was carried out. (Source: Overseas Network)
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