China's stealth design software breakthrough, mega dam project boost: 7 science highlights
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Chinese aerospace engineers have a revolutionary software design that they say will allow them to overcome a major barrier to stealth aircraft development.
Team based in China also finds that the use of specific drugs in combination with chemotherapy could be used to inhibit this process in mice, with a clinical trial already under way in breast cancer patients. Photo: AP
A team of Chinese scientists has found that the spread of cancer from original tumour sites to distant organs can be caused by chemotherapy triggering the awakening of dormant cancer cells.
The mega dam across the Yarlung Tsangpo River could produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges dam further south. Photo: AFP
Beijing has launched the massive Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project in southern Tibet after decades of scientific research.
Chinese researchers have manufactured the world's largest barium gallium selenide (BGSe) crystal, a breakthrough that could pave the way for ultra-high-power laser weapons capable of zapping satellites from the ground.
US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites with GBU-57 bunker busters in June met with reportedly little resistance. Photo: AP
Precision-guided bunker busters fly slowly but carry massive warheads wrapped in thick armour. Small nations without air power watch helplessly as bombs fall. When US B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran's nuclear sites with GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordnance Penetrator) bunker busters on June 22, there was reportedly little resistance.
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Chinese researchers have offered a countermeasure: strike the weak flank.
As the world's brightest young mathematical minds gathered last week at Australia's Sunshine Coast for the biggest global maths competition of the year, one moment stood out before the contest had even begun.
China's CR450AF EMU (left) and CR400AF-S EMU trains are displayed at the 12th UIC High-Speed Railway Congress at the National Railway Test Centre in Beijing on July 9. Photo: EPA
China has pulled the wraps off its next-generation high-speed rail technology as the United States revokes federal funding for California's high-speed rail project.
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