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I started my research career in the Institute of Metal Research (IMR), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang. After briefly working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, I moved to Europe where I worked at RWTH Aachen University for three years and then at the department of physics at Xiamen University. Since 2013, I have been a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Beihang University in Beijing.
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2 years ago Read more at Nature.com

The Regeneron Science Talent Search finalists were selected from 2,162 applications received from 712 high schools across 46 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and 10 other countries. I started my research in my freshman year during the COVID pandemic when suicide rates were high. My favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption, the 1984 biographical drama about the life of Mozart. What I do for fun: I enjoy all outdoor activities, including hiking, sailing and especially skiing.
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2 years ago Read more at Newsday

National Science Board advises the National Science Foundation. In a statement on Feb. 27, the foundation gave until May to decide how to choose between two competing proposals for the telescope. The announcement came as a relief to American astronomers, fretting about losing ground to their European colleagues.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Yaxin Wang, PhD (seated left), O.H. Frazier, MD (seated right) will collaborate with researchers at Georgia Tech, North Carolina State University and Rice University to develop a novel LVAD as an alternative treatment option to cardiac transplantation and long-term support in end-stage heart failure.
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2 years ago Read more at EurekAlert

Four faculty from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, have been honored by their colleagues through the Weed Science Society of America. The awards were presented Jan. 22 at the joint meeting of the weed science Society. Tom Barber was honored twice: as Outstanding Educator; and a WSSA Extension Award for Outstanding Service as an extension professional.
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2 years ago Read more at Pine Bluff Commercial

Sunflower sea stars have up to 24 arms and can grow to diameters of more than three feet. They are voracious hunters that prey upon sea urchins living among the 100-foot-tall stalks of algae that make up the kelp forests of the Pacific Northwest.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 is the first president since James B. Conant, Class of 1914, to be trained in the sciences. Some Harvard Medical School professors said they believe it would be helpful to have a president with a similar academic background. HMS professor Reza Dana said that he was “excited” about Harvard bucking its recent trend of selecting presidents from the humanities or the social sciences.
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2 years ago Read more at Harvard Crimson

Scientists will observe how animals’ routines at several zoos are disrupted during the April 8 total solar eclipse How do animals react during the eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April WASHINGTON, Texas. They previously detected other strange animal behaviors in 2017 at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, that was in the path of total darkness.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

The Owensboro Museum of Science and History is hosting a pair of programs this weekend. One is designed to show attendees that geology rocks, providing education on rocks, minerals, and fossils. The other will offer storytelling and an interactive experience about solar eclipses.
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2 years ago Read more at The Owensboro Times

Wildflower Dryas integrifolia gives the 1,200-year time span its name. The impact caused the sudden cooling and contributed to the demise of the mammoths, steppe bison and other large Pleistocene mammals, along with the people who pursued them. Researchers later claimed that the Younger Drya prompted a turn toward agriculture in Eurasia and eventually, civilization.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times