Reading Skills Plays an Important Role in English Improvement

One of the best ways to make progress with English is to read.Readind text in English can help students in many aspects of their learning.When they read in English they learn new words and grammar strucures.If the students repeatedly see that new vocabulary they’ll learn it by heart and then they’ll be able to use it when writing or speaking in English.     

CAS to Renovate Its Campus in Northern Suburb of Beijing

CAS will soon begin work on reconstruction of its campus in the northern suburb of Beijing. It is the Academy's largest ever investment in infrastructure.Covering an area of about 376,000 square meters with a floor space of 350,000 square meters, the new research park will be home to nine CAS institutes. Besides six institutes which are located in the area     

A Morc Global Strategy for IAU： Boosting Astronomical Rescarch and Education in Developing Countries--An Interview with New IAU President Norio Kaifu

Q: Congratulations to you for becoming the new IAU president! What are the main objectives of the IAU in the coming three years? President Kaifu: The objective of the IAU is to promote astronomy in al...     

BP Group and CAS institute to co-establish an energy lab in Dalian

The CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(DICP)and BP Group will join efforts to set up an Energy Innovation Laboratory(BP- DICP EIL)at DICP.The agreement for the new initiative was signed by DICP Director ZHANG Tao and BP Group Vice President Tony Meggs on 5 December,2007 in Dalian. According to the agreement, BP will donate $3 million to the new lab,which will be part of the forthcoming National Laboratory for Clean Energy Sources.In addition,the company promises to annually contribute no less than ...     

CAS Report Forecasts Future Research Breakthroughs

A report entitled"Vision 2020:The Emerging Trends in Science and Technology and Strategic Options in China"published by CAS in June anticipated a total of 22 major scientific events to happen in the world and 19 in China in the next five to ten years.By analyzing ten fields most likely to see milestone achievements in the near future,the report predicted that quantum information technology will soon lead the revolution     

ZHANG Tao:New leader of the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

Prof. ZHANG Tao, an expert in industrial catalysis, has been appointed the new director of the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP). He will succeed Prof. BAO Xinhe to take the helm of the multidisciplinary institute     

A STUDY ON THE WRITING PROCESS

The objective of this paper is to help the students become good writers by guiding them through the process of writing, such as generating ideas, drafting, and revising. The ability to write well will help students provide answers in examinations and write project reports and academic essays which will be understood easily and appreciated by the teachers. Writing well is also an asset at the work place, where you may be writing memos, e-mail messages, reports, or proposals to various types of readers. Therefore, it is crucial for the students to be coached in the use of the writing process. In this paper, we will analyze the complete writing process by dividing it into three stages: planning, writing, and finalizing. Within each of these stages, there are a few steps.     

China Sets up One of the World’s Most Powerful Ground-based Systems for Space Weather Monitoring

The Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project (or the Chinese Meridian Project) is the first major scientific infrastructure China has ever built in the field of space science to understand and predict near-Earth space environment variations. It started construction in early 2008 and became fully operational in October 2012. In this issue of BCAS, we will present you with the latest development and major scientific facts of this remarkable project.     

Enterovirus B Sneaks into Victim Cells through Accomplice Receptors

<正>"If you know both the enemy and yourself well, you need not to fear for the results of a hundred battles," wrote Sun Tzu, a Chinese philosopher, in his famous the Art of War about 2,500 years ago. This is particularly true in the ever-lasting war against human viruses. Recently, a vital piece of information has been acquired concerning enteroviruses, which could cause many severe brain infections and even death in children. A recent study published in Cell unravels how these viruses sneak into cells with the help of accomplices from the host, opening a new window on developing drugs to specifically fight against them.     

Getting It Straight

You will need:string, 24 inches to 36inches (60cm t0 90 cm) longheavy bookBet you can't straighten this string!What to do: Lay the string out straight on atable or on the floor. Place the book in themiddle of the string. Tie the string around thebook with…     

3D打印“抗霾楼”楼高或达4800米（英文）

正Many of the world's tallest skyscrapers will make you queasy if you reach their summit.But these grand buildings could soon look like a bungalow in comparison to a three-mile high skyscraper envisioned by architects.They say that the mighty tower could be built by 2062,using 3D printing technology to create walls that could withstand high winds and unique     

Help Those Missing from the Table——Confronting Gender Issues in New Looks

The widespread application of new technologies, while empowering women with new opportunities, might also put them at disadvantage. For example, in comparison with males, the application of AI might be more likely to cost them their jobs. Meanwhile, women are missing out the opportunity to participate in the policy-making process – they are absent from the table. If no change is made in the current policies, we will miss the goal to achieve gender equality, the fifth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set for UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, warned elite women scientists with the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World(OWSD). What shall be done now? How can we make a difference? They are in action to help.     

MPG Junior Research Group at KIZ

With the approval of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the German Ministry of Science & Education, this year will see the establishment of another MPG junior research group at the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ). The institute has been seeking all over the world for a scientist to head the group. The first such group was set up at the KIZ in 2001, with Dr. Wang Wen from the University of Chicago as its head.     

Receiver for 6-cm Polarization Observation Starts Working

A 6-cm receiving system with a polarimeter, made by engineers of German Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, has been installed to the 25 radio telescope in Urumqi, the capital of western China‘s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The new instrument for Sino-German cooperation on radio astronomy will enable Chinese astronomers to measure the polarization of radio sources for the first time.     

Exploratory Round Table Conferences： in Search of Emerging New Sciences

<正>Science,the never-ending frontier,is a major driving force for innovation in society.Unexpected discoveries in a particular area point to novel streams of innovation in other fields;new insights gained by theory shine light onto many so far untouched challenges.New methods and technologies in research trigger innovations in fields that were believed to be disparate for long.At the same time society expects science to solve important problems in the further development by health care and medicine,pave the road to sustainable technologies and industries that will increase the public wealth and thereby contribute to the well-being of the whole so-     

Five new CAS in stitutes in the pipeline

CAS is to join hands with local governments in establishing five new institutes in coastal or economically booming cities. The five institutes will be the Yantai Institute of Coastal Research for Sustainable Development (YIC) at the beautiful seaside city…     

New CAS Members Elected

At a press conference heldon Nov. 24 in Beijing, CASPresident Lu Yongxiang, whois also president of the CAS Presidium,announced that 58 scientists and engi-neers had been elected new CAS mem-bers (see page 221 for a listing).CAS membership is the highestacademic title in the field of scienceand technology in China and an honorof life tenure conferred by the State.According to the Bylaw on CASMembership, only those Chinese sci-entists and engineers who have madesystematic and creative…     

＂China is an Exciting Place to Work＂： An Interview with Prof. Richard Corlett

In the last 30 years, Prof. Richard Corlett has carried out investigations in South and East Asian tropics and was actively engaged in biodiversity conservation in these regions. From July, 2012, he will start to work as director of a new integrative conservation center and head of biodiversity conservation research     

A Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Established at CAS

On June 18, the launching ceremony for the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China (KITPC) at CAS was held at the campus of the CAS Institute of Theoretical Physics in Beijing. Together with the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, they will be new additions to the worldwide Kavli network.