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02 2023
Strengthening capabilities in fields seen as key to making big sci-tech advances
Chinese scientists are deeply encouraged by President Xi Jinping's call to enhance basic research and be self-reliant in critica...
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10 2022
Wang Xiujie and Fu Qiaomei, both from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), are encouraged by the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as they have actively implemented the ...
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05 2023
Chinese paleontologists have discovered the fossil of a new marine reptile species, dating back 244 million years, in Luoping County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. The study was published in the journal Scien...
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09 2022
A collection of well-preserved fish fossils were unearthed in two newly discovered fossil beds from the early Silurian Period - around 439 to 436 million years ago - in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality and...
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07 2022
A Chinese research team has reported new findings on the evolution of the giant panda's false thumb, suggesting the giant panda was already a dedicated bamboo feeder over 6 million years ago.
The study, conduc...
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05 2022
This undated photo shows the fossil specimen and sketch of Honghesaurus, a new species of marine reptiles known as a pachypleurosaur. (Chinese Academy of Sciences/Handout via Xinhua)
BEIJING, May 10 (Xinhua) -...
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03 2022The well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl is shown in a new study. (Provided by the researchers)
Paleontologists have discovered the amazingly well-preserved fossil skeleton of an extinct owl that l...
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01 2022
BEIJING, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- A study showed that the ancient relatives of modern humans in northern China may have had an "Einstein's brain" at the time they lived 200,000 to 160,000 years ago.
An internationa...
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01 2022
The Xujiayao site and the reconstructed skull of Xujiayao Man [Photo/Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology]
An international team led by Chinese paleoanthropologists recently discover...
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11 2021Chinese paleontologists announced the discovery of a new dinosaur with a unique butterfly-shaped neural arch of the anteriormost dorsal vertebrae, which makes it distinguishable from other troodontids.
The res...
