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The Chinese scientists leaving top US universities to take up high-profile roles in China, boosting Beijing in its race for global talent..​


  • Over the past few years, hundreds of Chinese scientists have switched affiliations from American universities to institutions in China
  • The Post looks at some of the highest-profile people to make the change

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The return to China of Tsinghua University’s “star” twin scientists at the end of their postdoctoral research in North America was celebrated on Chinese social media after it was announced on the alma mater’s website.

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“Master researcher” Gao Huajian joins Tsinghua University for the next chapter of a glittering international career that has included top awards in his field.

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Award-winning Chinese-born geometer Sun Song leaves California to take up a position in China.

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After working in the United States for more than 30 years, biochemist Kunliang Guan is back in China with a full-time chair professor position at
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in the eastern province of Zhejiang.

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After more than 20 years in Britain as a prominent physicist dedicated to unveiling the secrets of superfast fluids, Zhang Yonghao joins China’s new national hypersonic laboratory in Beijing.

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Sun Xin, who specialises in probability theory and mathematical physics, was a joint winner of the prestigious Rollo Davidson Prize this year.

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Chen Zhoufeng, a leading expert in the study of itch mechanisms joins an institute in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, after 33 years in the United States.

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Xiang-Dong Fu, who left California over suspicions about his foreign links, has joined Westlake University in southern China.

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World famous structural biologist Nieng Yan – dubbed China’s “goddess scientist” – who broke many hearts when she moved to a top US university five years ago, thrills the nation by announcing she is to return home.

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Marine data expert Li Zhijin, who has also worked for the US Navy and other government agencies, is now employed at a top university in Shanghai.

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Top Chinese-Australian scientists Dou Shixue and Liu Huakun join the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) to help find ways for China to reduce its carbon emissions, USST president says.

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World-renowned Chinese mathematician
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announces his retirement from his position at Harvard University to teach full-time at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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Chinese scientists achieve breakthrough in biosynthesis of anticancer drug paclitaxel​

Paclitaxel, a natural anti-tumor product with an exceptionally complex and unique molecular structure, is widely used in the clinical treatment of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and other cancers. It is the world's best-selling plant-based anticancer drug and one of the few plant-based drugs capable of controlling the growth of cancer cells, said Yan.

In nature, paclitaxel can only be extracted from the rare and endangered gymnosperm of the Taxus genus of plants. A Taxus plant grows very slowly, usually taking decades or even hundreds of years to become a big tree. In addition, the content levels of paclitaxel-like substances in Taxus plants are extremely low. All these factors posed great difficulties for the further utilization of paclitaxel, Yan said.
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"This finding is a major breakthrough in our understanding of the biosynthesis of complex natural products, and it will enable our abilities to produce other valuable natural products at scale and thereby develop new and valuable medicines," said Jens Nielsen, a professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
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Strontium-based optical clock has an accuracy of 1 second every 70 billion years or so.

Chinese scientists build ultra-precise clock they hope will help redefine the second​

  • Strontium-based optical clock loses or gains one second every 7 billion years
  • China is just the second country after the US to achieve such precise timekeeping
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Two endangered breeds of cattle native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have been successfully cloned.
The Zhangmu and the Apeijiaza, two rare yellow cattle breeds native to the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, are strategic resources for China, as these breeds can help researchers breed varieties well adapted to the harsh high-altitude environment.

According to the third national survey of livestock and poultry genetic resources conducted in 2021 and 2022, there were just 19 heads of Zhangmu cattle in Xizang's Shigatse City and 39 heads of Apeijiaza cattle in the autonomous region's Nyingchi City.
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Strontium-based optical clock has an accuracy of 1 second every 70 billion years or so.

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Two endangered breeds of cattle native to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have been successfully cloned.

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Strontium is actually a real thing what the heck.
 
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I kinda get why Japan/Korea/Taiwan don't like a China. Too bad they can't bring themselves to be honest about it.

No it's not human rights, freedomz, low living standards or whatever bullshit you spout. Hell look at yourselves, you guys all came from right wing dictatorships. Its because once China gets it's stuff together, you guys don't really have much to offer the world anymore and you know it. Back when China was dirt poor, you could finally be something big in the world after centuries of being irrelevant. And now that's coming to an end. What worse is you guys are fearing you sided with America who might be the wrong side. And history is not kind to those who picked the wrong side.

Now that said, what I really wanted to say is next time I'm not getting another Samsung phone. Overpriced piece of crap. Probably get an HONOR or something.
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Well, don't mind me taking advantage of the decimation of the Korean high tech industry and their ass-kissing to the West. Now I can enjoy 50%+ off Samsung Flagship before they even hit the stores. Thanks China, please keep it coming, but can you not snuff them out completely please? I am really enjoying my side hussle of flipping brand new Samsung products. Gotta make some side cash for an OnePlus 12 afterall.
 

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The "Huaqing" pneumatic wave power generation ship developed by Tsinghua University as a core team was successfully launched​


Tsinghua News Network, January 29th , at 11:00 on January 26th, at the dock of Minhua Ship Technology Co., Ltd., Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong, a team led by Zhang Yongliang , professor of Tsinghua University and chief scientist of ocean energy of the China Institute of Ocean Engineering, as the core After nearly 20 years of arduous technical research and tens of thousands of test verifications, the "Huaqing" pneumatic wave power generation equipment developed was held at a launch ceremony. Liu Xiaoli, deputy dean of the School Jin Feng, director of the Academic Committee of the Department of Water Resources of Tsinghua University, Zheng Xingang, Vice President of the China Institute of Ocean Engineering (Qingdao) , Zhou Peishan, Vice Mayor of Jiangmen City, Tan Shengqian, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC of Jiangmen Xinhui District, and other relevant unit leaders and guests witnessed this moment.
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"Huaqing" launching ceremony
Zhang Yongliang introduced that during the research and development process of the "Huaqing" pneumatic wave power generation equipment, the R&D team invented high-efficiency broadband wave energy capture technology and developed a U-shaped flow channel air turbine, which broke through a series of key technical bottlenecks in the field of wave power generation. , achieving efficient, safe and reliable power generation under all sea conditions, all technical achievements and performance indicators are at the world's leading level, and the power generation cost after large-scale development can be close to offshore wind power. This will make the commercial development of ocean energy resources truly possible, and is another important development for mankind in the field of clean energy development after photovoltaic power generation and wind power generation.

Liu Xiaoli said that with the long-term support of relevant departments of Tsinghua University and the National Key Laboratory of Hydrosphere Science and Hydraulic Engineering, Professor Zhang Yongliang’s team has been unremittingly developing pneumatic wave power generation equipment for more than ten years. The research team has cross-integrated marine science, Engineering disciplines such as hydrodynamics, energy and electricity, electrical engineering, automatic control, monitoring and measurement, and mechanical manufacturing have applied for 18 authorized patents for related results, forming a core technology system with completely independent intellectual property rights, and won awards including the 75th German Nuremberg International Invention Gold Medal, the 9th International Best Researcher Award for New Scientific Inventions, the 6th International Functional Materials and Structural Mechanics Research Award, and many other international awards.

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SKA-Mid prototype dish creates first light image​


The first prototype dish of the SKA-Mid telescope constructed on site in South Africa has achieved first light.
The prototype, which is a fully functioning single-dish radio telescope in its own right, was funded by Germany’s Max Planck Society for technical commissioning and scientific use. It is contributing to the SKA Observatory’s preparations for commissioning the much larger 197-dish SKA-Mid telescope, currently under construction in South Africa.

Known as SKAMPI, it was designed by the SKAO’s international Dish consortium, involving institutions in 10 countries and led by CETC54 in China, where it was also manufactured.

SKAMPI’s first light image of the Southern Sky at 2.5 GHz wavelength demonstrates that the technology is working as expected, and although the uncalibrated measurements are still affected by radio frequency interference (RFI), atmospheric and system variations, the image already reveals much of the characteristic radio emission of our Milky Way and external galaxies such as Centaurus A. The team also tested out the dish’s pulsar mode, detecting the Vela pulsar.

“Tests of the SKAMPI prototype have already provided invaluable measurements of key performance parameters. These have been used to refine the design of the SKA-Mid dishes to ensure that they meet our demanding requirements for pointing and surface accuracy,” said SKAO Head of System Science Dr Robert Laing.

“The test procedures developed for SKAMPI will also be used to qualify the new SKA-Mid dishes before they are integrated into the array.”

SKAMPI was fully assembled in mid-2018 at the South African SKA site in the Karoo by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), OHB Digital Connect GmbH and the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO). Initial test observations took place in December 2019 and technical commissioning such as system evaluation, radio frequency interference testing and performance testing took place until early 2022, leading to the SKA system design qualification documents published later that year.

SKAMPI will enter full science operations later this year, with further technical developments planned.
Although much of its observing time will be dedicated to science programmes defined by the SKAMPI team, requests for observations will also be open to the South African and German science communities, and setting up an educational programme for schools and universities is under consideration..

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China's brain computer interface seems less risky than the Neuralink, because the chips are implanted in the skull instead of the cerebral cortex.
Unlike the process used by Neuralink, the Chinese team implanted the chips into the patient’s skull, rather than the cerebral cortex, ensuring signal quality within the skull while avoiding damage to neural tissue, according to Xuanwu Hospital.
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