Tianhe Core Module, the first part of a planned new space station of China, was successfully launched recently. The core device of the Container-Free Laboratory Cabinet, one of the two cabinets in the cabin, is developed by a collaborated research team of the Institute of Intelligent Machines and the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics.
In recent years, as a strategy for activating nitrogen under ambient conditions, electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia has shown great potential. To realize efficient electrochemical nitrogen fixation，scientists have been trying to design a reasonable electrocatalyst with the optimal nitrogen adsorption and activation capability.
As the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games is approaching, to secure the water quality of Guanting Reservoir, one of the water resources of the Games, has become an urgent.
Prof. WANG Junfeng from High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, together with some international scholars, developed a novel circular permutated LOV2 recently, for expanding the repertoire of genetically encoded photoswitches, which will accelerate the design of novel optogenetic devices. This result was published in Nature Chemical Biology.
The polar vortex is a large area of upper-atmosphere cyclonic air circulation surrounding both poles. It is bounded by the polar jet stream and its associated cold air is usually confined to the polar regions. Within the Antarctic circle, and southern polar vortex, ozone quantities are the lowest, globally. A research published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, led by Dr. Yuhan Luo, corresponding author and Associate Professor at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), suggests that the polar vortex plays a key role in Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion.