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Top Ten Discoveries of 2009: Nat Geo News's Most Viewed[12 17, 2009]


National Geographic News's most popular coverage of 2009 scientific finds is swarming with megamouth sharks, giant snakes, a transparent-headed fish, and rare species rescued from obscurity—then eaten.

Rainforests turned into smoldering ruins[12 07, 2009]


Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape. It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life. But this is the reality of S...

Professor Hyecong-Dong Park, Secretary general of South Korean national group of IAEG, Visited the IGGCAS[11 30, 2009]


Invited by the Key Laboratory of Engineering Geomechanics professor Hyecong-Dong Park ,from Seoul National University,paid a visit to our institute on 25th Nov.,2009.During his visiting he gave a talk entitled "Geology controlled slope stability"to the students.Professor Wu Faquan met him and they made a lively disc...

Darwin and the case for 'militant atheism'[11 25, 2009]


On November 24, 1859, the first edition of a book that would shake the most deeply established beliefs about life was published in London. What would eventually be known as "The Origin of Species" was the opening shot in a debate that hasn't ended, even 150 years later. In a series of books starting in 1976 and in ...

Dr. Qi Shengwen Got "Golden Hammer Award"[11 04, 2009]


On the opening ceremony of "the Academic Annual meeting of the Geological Society of China",The 11th Youth Geological Science and Thechnology Award Ceremony was held,on which 10 people won "Golden Hammer Award" and 40 people won "Silver Hammer Award".

Professor Ai Yinshuang was awarded[11 02, 2009]


A prize-awarding ceremony,"Zhao Jiuzhang Talented Youth Prize for 2009",was held in Center for Space Science and Applied Research,CAS.on Oct. 22th,2009.Dr. Ai Yinshuang,a professor from our institute,was one of the four scientists who won the prize.

Diviner Observes LCROSS Impact[10 23, 2009]


The LRO Diviner instrument obtained infrared observations of the LCROSS impact. LRO flew by the LCROSS Centaur impact site 90 seconds after impact at a distance of ~80 km. Diviner was commanded to observe the impact site on eight successive orbits, and obtained a series of thermal maps before and after the impact at...

TWOWS Fourth General Assembly and International Conference[10 23, 2009]


At the generous invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) the Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is pleased to announce that the TWOWS Fourth General Assembly and International Conference will take place at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC), Beijing, China, 27-30 June 2010.

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