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Backpack makes walking a power trip
A backpack that generates electricity while reducing the wearer’s load.A prototype backpack that can generate electricity as well as reduce load on the wearer has been designed by Jia Cheng, Zhong Lin Wang and their team.The backpack uses a triboelectric nanogenerator to convert mechanical energ...
Multiple moves for malaria
Starving malaria parasites by blocking their sugar uptake could be the key to combating the looming threat of drug resistant strains.In June 2021, for the first time the World Health Organization (WHO) certified China as malaria-free after it reported zero indigenous cases since 2017. In the same...
Simulating a Martian landing
A cable system replicating the rough descent through another plant’s atmosphere helped the Tianwen-1 lander become the first non-American lander to set down safely on Mars. In May this year, when China's Tianwen-1 deployed a working lander on Mars, President Xi Jinping was lavish with praise fo...
A new rapid lung-cancer drug sensitivity test
An organoid-based test to predict drug effectiveness returns individualized results within a week for the world's deadliest cancer.Hundreds of miniature organs, or ‘organoids’, grown in a nanoliter-scale microwell array system designed by Tsinghua researchers and their collaborators could soon ...
A big new player in large-scale natural-language AI
Introducing the world’s largest natural-language artificial intelligence model – the multi-lingual, multimedia-generating Wu Dao.China’s first super-scale natural-language AI was unveiled in early 2021, and an even larger version of 1.75 trillion parameters was released in June. It’s currentl...
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