BEIJING, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's science news from the past week:

INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH

Chinese scientists are making efforts to build a cutting-edge platform for the research on pathogenic microbial infection and the development of infectious disease prevention and control products.

The research will benefit not only China but also other countries, scientists with the Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology of the Chinese Academy of Science told dozens of foreign journalists who visited the lab recently.

MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM DEEP SPACE

Chinese astronomers have detected repeated fast radio bursts (FRB) -- mysterious signals believed to be from a source about 3 billion light years from Earth -- with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built.

Scientists detected the signals with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) and they are carefully cross-checking and processing them.

CHINA'S 2019 FUTURE SCIENCE PRIZE

Four scientists won the 2019 Future Science Prize, the first Chinese non-governmental science award jointly initiated by groups of scientists and entrepreneurs.

Winners of the prize will be selected regardless of their nationalities, as long as their achievements are original and innovative, have long-term significance or have passed the tests of time. In addition, it only awards scientists who have made research achievements in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS

The 2019 World Computer Congress was held from Tuesday to Wednesday in Changsha, capital city of central China's Hunan Province, highlighting artificial intelligence (AI) and other latest technologies.

Experts and company representatives worldwide gathered at the event to exchange views on the future trend of computer technologies and industries.

LAND CARBON SINK

Researchers have successfully completed quantifying land carbon sink enhancement by carbon dioxide fertilization over the past five decades.

Quantifying land carbon sink response to rising carbon dioxide is important to understand and predict how climate interacts with the carbon cycle. Enditem

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