Apr
30
Smarter self-driving cars come equipped with better road sense
Drivers instinctively slow down when they see a cyclist ahead or a traffic light turning red. Their reactions depend on the seamless fusion of information gained through sight a...
Apr
29
How to protect astronauts from potentially fatal solar storms
NASA’s Apollo 16 and 17 lunar missions landed on the Moon in April and December of 1972. Had either arrived in August, the astronauts would have been at very great risk of deat...
Apr
29
A mathematical bridge between the huge and the tiny
A new mathematical link between two key equations — one that deals with the very big and the other, the very small — has been developed by a young mathematician in China1.The ...
Apr
29
Bivalve shells inspire materials that don’t wear out
Bivalves, such as freshwater mussels, open their shells to feed and reproduce, while closing them tightly to protect their soft bodies from threats from predators such as crabs....
Apr
28
USTC Periodizes Virology Development
A research team led by Associate Professor LIU Huan from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) proposes for the fi...
Apr
27
Closer to Earth: USTC Proposes New Techniques in Exploring Ultralow Velocity Zones at Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and international scientists, have proposed a ne...
Apr
27
USTC Advances in Topological Phase Transition in Organometallic Lattices
A research group led by Prof. LI Xingxing of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of Chinese Academy of Chinese (CAS) made a reversible topological control in 2D...
Apr
26
USTC Constructs Sophisticated Synthetic System Using Self-replicating Nanostructures
A research team led by late Professor LIANG Haojun from the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale of University of Science and Technology of China (U...
