China announced it has begun mass producing the world’s first ultra-low noise, single-photon detector featuring four channels, suggesting that powerful applications loom in everything from daily communications to national defence. Dubbed the “photon catcher”, the device can detect a single photon – the smallest unit of energy – making it a core component in cutting-edge…
China has pulled the wraps off its next-generation high-speed rail technology as the United States revokes federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project. China’s latest bullet train, the CR450, is undergoing final performance tests to prepare it for commercial operation trials at 400km/h (250mph), the official Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday. The team…
China is ready to install a large impulse turbine at the Datang Zala Hydropower Station in Tibet autonomous region, according to the official Science and Technology Daily. The home-grown turbine, with a maximum capacity of 500 megawatts, has the world’s largest single-unit capacity, according to the report on Wednesday. Two turbines will be installed at…
Yajiang-1, a cutting-edge computing centre perched in the cradle of Tibetan civilisation along the Yarlung Tsangpo River, is up and running as part of China’s plan to transform the so-called roof of the world into a strategic frontier for sustainable supercomputing. The facility, the first major hub of the “Eastern Data, Western Computing” project on…
SANYA, China, Dec. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Yin Min Htwe, a former civil servant in Myanmar, is currently pursuing her academic career in China as an assistant researcher at the Coconut Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CRICATAS). Based in Sanya, a coastal city in Hainan in south China, she calls…
BEIJING, Nov. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report from Science and Technology Daily: When Dr. Juan Carlos Mateus Sanchez, a researcher at Brazil’s National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO), was selected as a young international scientist in 2019 to undertake research at a Chinese institution for 12 months, he immediately said yes. …