China is building a new radio telescope in the mountain of Guizhou province, in southern China. Upon its expected completion in 2016, it will be the biggest in the world, with a diameter of 500 meters. The project is expected to enable the surveying of neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way and other galaxies, the [...]
Just read an article on the BBC, hypothesizing whether China is going to overtake the USA on science. The title of the article is a little misleading, as the contents refer to the number of scientific publications. To overtake as a leader in scientific research, I think there’s still a long way to go for [...]
Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, and from Tsinghua Universtiy, in Beijing, have succeeded to transport quantum information over a free space distance of 16 km, from a source at Badaling in Beijing to a destination in Huailai in Hebei province (see map below). Quantum information teleportation is not [...]