What is the similarity between a trotting horse lamp and an aero engine? Who helped transform Beijing s air quality and sky from hazy to crystal blue? How would AI change the way we live?. Answers to these questions and more were found at a New Year s Eve event hosted by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology (BAST) as part of the association s New Year of Science project to welcome 2024.
As the last magnet of China s High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) was successfully installed in the Huairou Science City in Beijing on December 11, 2023, the first step of the HEPS storage ring installation was officially completed. The HEPS, after completion, will stand as one of the brightest synchrotron radiation (SR) sources in the world and the first high-energy synchrotron radiation facility in China.