Highlights of China's science news
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's science news from the past week:
BLUE ALGAE ENEMY
Chinese researchers have found the mechanism of blue algae's natural enemy in the Chaohu Lake, China's fifth-largest freshwater lake in east China's Anhui province, according to a recently published study in the journal Structure.
The research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has isolated a long-tailed cyanophage called Mic1, a kind of virus which can specifically infect the blue algae and thus regulate the population density and seasonal fluctuation of the algal bloom.
NEAR-SPACE ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE
Chinese researchers have completed an in-situ detection experiment on near-space atmospheric turbulence in northwest China's Qinghai Province and southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The energy and mass exchange and the pollutants transport and diffusion in the atmosphere are closely related to atmospheric turbulence.
The flight experiment lasted 13 hours and eight minutes, with a maximum altitude of 21,625 meters, and the researchers received the completed data record.
PULSAR NAVIGATION
Chinese scientists have conducted experiments on pulsar navigation with an X-ray space telescope, and the technology could be used in future deep space exploration and interplanetary or interstellar travel.
The experiments were conducted on the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), dubbed Insight, which was sent into space on June 15, 2017, to observe black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, by scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
EXCAVATION AT PREHISTORIC RUINS
Chinese archaeologists will launch a large-scale excavation at the prehistoric Sanxingdui Ruins in southwest China's Sichuan Province before the end of 2019.
The new excavation project aims to discover more items of the lost civilization, such as sacrificing and worshipping sites and aristocratic tombs, according to Tang Fei, head of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute.
Tang said the upcoming excavation would involve more researchers at home and abroad. Enditem
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