30 January 2018
China has is building the largest steerable radio telescope in the world, the Xinjiang Qitai 110-meter Radio Telescope (QTT), which could provide a huge boost to the search for dark matter, gravitational waves, and extraterrestrial intelligence.
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30 January 2018
China Central Television (CCTV) has released rare footage showing Chinese engineers building the main parts of the nation's first space station. The fifth episode of the documentary series "China Reinvents Itself" introduces how China is going to build its own space station, as well as the core details of the space station. The plan is to launch the core module, "Tianhe 1," sometime in 2018. Construction on the space station is expected to be finished around 2022.
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31 January 2018
On 31 Januar, the Chinese government announced a plan to increase support for basic science, aiming for China to lead the world in science and innovation in about 30 years. The government will improve planning for basic research, build more high-quality state laboratories, train young talent, boost international exchanges, and increase funding from more sources, according to a guideline issued by the State Council. More support will be provided for key basic subjects such as mathematics and physics, as well as cutting-edge research in basic science, involving universe evolution, the origin of life, brain science and cognition, quantum science and deep-ocean science.
In terms of foreign cooperation, the guideline said the government would organize more international collaboration projects in key research, open national research and development programs to foreign participants, and implement science and innovation action plans under the Belt and Road Initiative.
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31 January 2018
China's dark matter detection satellite, "Wukong", is operating normally, a month after a computer malfunction in late 2017, experts said. On the night of 29 December, the DAMPE team discovered abnormalities with the satellite's high-voltage power supply, which caused data transmission to fall to low levels. "It was highly possible that a computer reset itself due to the impact of high-energy particles," said scientist Chang Jin. "Urgent repairs were required."
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