Sino-Russian joint lab for atmospheric physics opens

The inauguration of Chinese-Russian Laboratory of AtmosphericPhysics was held on 21 May, 2007 in Beijing.     

EAST gets a head start in steady-state tokamak physics

While the International Thermonuclear Experi- mental Reactor (ITER) project is underway at Cadarache, France, an initiative in build- ing the next-generation tokamak at the CAS Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui P…     

CAS launches center for theoretical physics of mega-scientific facilities

The nameplate for the Theoretical Physics Research Center for Large Science Facilities was unveiled on 6 September at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in     

The "Revolution in chemistry and physics." Overthrow of a reigning paradigm or competition between contemporary research programs?

Recent revisionist interpretations of the chemical revolution have left intact the core of the traditional view that its central feature was the overthow of the phlogiston theory by the oxygen theory of combustion of Antoine Lavoisier. The central confrontation has been seen as that between the adherents of the chemical system that Lavoisier built around his theory and the form of the phlogiston theory defended by Joseph Priestley. This essay contends that Priestley's use of phlogiston was so loosely connected with the older phlogiston theories descended from that of Georg Ernst Stahl that the events at the heart of the chemical revolution should be viewed more as a competition between two rival new research programs than as the replacement of a reigning paradigm.