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News on China's scientific and technological development.
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"Construction of China's first solution-type medical isotope test reactor is under way in Sichuan Province.
Once complete in 2027, the center will produce two of the most commonly used medical isotopes, iodine-131, which are used to detect thyroid cancer and molybdenum-99 which is used to diagnose heart disease and other cancers."
Once complete in 2027, the center will produce two of the most commonly used medical isotopes, iodine-131, which are used to detect thyroid cancer and molybdenum-99 which is used to diagnose heart disease and other cancers."
Xiaomi building up a gigafactory right now for smart home products.
China scientists rush to climate-proof potatoes
China is the world’s biggest producer of potatoes, which are crucial to global food security because of their high yield relative to other staple crops.
But they are particularly vulnerable to heat, and climate change, driven by fossil fuel emissions, is pushing temperatures to dangerous new heights while also worsening drought and flooding.
With an urgent need to protect food supplies, Li, a researcher at the International Potato Center (CIP) in Beijing, is leading a three-year study into the effects of higher temperatures on the vegetable. His team is focusing on China’s two most common varieties.
Li’s team grew their crop over three months in a walk-in chamber set at 3 degrees Celsius above the current average temperature in northern Hebei and Inner Mongolia, the higher altitude provinces where potatoes are usually grown in China.
Their research, published in the journal Climate Smart Agriculture this month, found the higher temperatures accelerated tuber growth by 10 days, but cut potato yields by more than half.
Under current climate policies, the world is facing as much as 3.1 C of warming above pre-industrial levels by 2100, according to a United Nations report released in October.
Xiaomi has seen its market share in various smart home products increase significantly and plans to open up many overseas stores for all of this.
"Introducing "potato rice"! China has recently launched its first potato-to-rice production line in Zhaotong, Yunnan that turns potatoes into rice by changing the properties of macromolecules to reshape the starch via self-developed tech.
The production line has an annual output of 1,000 tonnes of the "potato rice" boasting cheaper price and longer-term storage. "
The production line has an annual output of 1,000 tonnes of the "potato rice" boasting cheaper price and longer-term storage. "
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Diamonds are our friend also
Higher-density storage technique could allow diamond disk to store equivalent of 2,000 Blu-ray discs
by Bob Yirka , Phys.org
The concept of diamond storage medium. Credit: Nature Photonics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01573-1
A team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China has developed a new way to code data onto a diamond with higher density than prior methods. In their paper in the journal Nature Photonics, the group notes that such optical discs could hold data safely at room temperature for millions of years.
Prior research has shown that it is possible to code data onto a diamond, allowing for much longer data than any other known method. But such efforts have produced low-density storage. In this new effort, the research team developed a new method for etching data onto a diamond that allows for much denser data storage, and thus for storing more information onto a single diamond.
In their work, the researchers used diamond pieces just a few millimeters in length—they were pursuing a proof of concept, not a true storage medium. Future versions, they note, could be the size of a Blu-ray disc. The new method involved the use of a to remove single carbon atoms from the surface of the diamond, leaving a tiny cavity. The cavity, the researchers note, exhibits a certain level of brightness when another laser is shone on it.
The researchers found that by controlling the energy levels of the writing laser, they could control the degree of brightness of a given site on the diamond by removing certain numbers of atoms. In this way, data can be stored as empty spaces with various brightness levels. A reader laser could then be used to determine the level of a given site, and use that to decode the information.
The research team tested their idea by coding stored images onto a tiny diamond chip and found their method was 99% accurate. They acknowledge that their method is not currently economically viable, however, due to the high cost of the laser, but suggest it could be used for certain high-importance applications.
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This is great and has huge marketing potential. Potatoes are a powerhouse of nutrients.
Chines scientists from CAS developed a technology to "split" image sensor pixels for higher photo resolutions. Dubbed as hyper imaging sampling, this method currently can already increase photo resolution up to 5k by 5k for sensors of only 1k by 1k pixels for example. And there is still room for even higher increases.
If I am reading it correctly, to use this technology it requires to pre-scan an image sensor with certain kind of laser to determine the "quantum efficiency distribution" within each pixel. Photos of motion objects produced by the sensor can then be enhanced accordingly. This should have huge applications in fields like remote sensing and security surveillance.
If I am reading it correctly, to use this technology it requires to pre-scan an image sensor with certain kind of laser to determine the "quantum efficiency distribution" within each pixel. Photos of motion objects produced by the sensor can then be enhanced accordingly. This should have huge applications in fields like remote sensing and security surveillance.
in the context of biogeochemistry, PFAS is small molecule. I don't have to tell you that a polymer's properties are vastly different than its monomer, such as how ethylene and polyethylene have very little in common.