China s giant eye opens up to the world 21:37 UTC+8, 2021-04-01 0
Nobel laureates among scientists welcoming the opening up of colossal radio telescope to researchers around the world to explore the universe and perhaps find alien civilizations.
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China’s five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, the world’s largest filled-aperture and most sensitive radio telescope, officially opened to the world on Wednesday.
China’s colossal “Sky Eye” telescope is exciting the international scientific community.
The World Laureates Association said George Smoot III, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics, is one of those interested in making use of it.
FAST, short for Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, is the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. Commonly known as Tianyan, literally “Sky Eye,” it looks like a giant round eye i
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Looking Back: January 24
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In 1985 communist Hungary,
Katalin Kariko lost her job at University of Szeged’s Biological Research Centre, where she was researching her newfound interest in RNA. The biochemist secured a job at Temple University in the US, boarded a one-way flight with money stuffed in her two-year-old’s teddy bear to escape the communist rule that did not allow taking money abroad.
In the US, she continued her research in RNA and 40 years later today, it has made one of the few leading vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic possible.
In Sojitra village in the Indian state of Gujarat, four-year-old
Nita Patel’s father was diagnosed with Tuberculosis. The father advised Nita to become a doctor and find a cure to such a disease. Today, in Maryland, US, she is at the forefront of leading an all-women team developing a vaccine to control the pandemic.