Thorium reactors: Asgard’s fire WELL begun; half done. That proverb—or, rather, its obverse—encapsulates the problems which have dogged civil nuclear power since its inception. Atomic energy... Read more
Their modification can increase solar cell efficiency by more than 30 percent. Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found an easy way to... Read more
Biologist Cui Qiu manipulates genes of little-known bacteria to make them superstars of fuel production. In one recent achievement, Cui, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences... Read more
With one stomp of his foot, Zhong Lin Wang illuminates a thousand LED bulbs – with no batteries or power cord. The current comes from essentially the same source as that tiny spark that jump... Read more
One team has already made a cat ‘disappear’ with a device that has huge military potential Mainland scientists are increasingly confident of developing the world’s first in... Read more
This pilot-scale breakthrough will provide ‘a good example’ for the recycling of increasingly popular rare earth elements in practical industrial applications Researchers at the... Read more
Chinese scientists described the country’s first moon rover on Wednesday and invited the global public to come up with a name for it. Zhao Xiaojin, director of the aerospace department... Read more
Chinese Academy of Sciences Team Describes a Portable Diagnostic Device that can Travel to the Patient in the journal Biomicrofluidics Reaching a clinic in time to receive an early diagnosis... Read more
China’s demand for coal continues to rise, but the parched country faces challenging finding enough water to cool its coal-fired power plants By many measures, this northern Chinese ci... Read more
There are an estimated 2.5 million abandoned oil and gas wells in the US alone OLD oil and gas wells might soon be reborn as environmentally friendly geothermal power generators. Geothermal... Read more
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, but Four Clones Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of... Read more