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Construction began Tuesday for the second phase of China's deep space observation radar facility, dubbed "China Compound Eye," in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, according to the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), which is leading project construction.
Covering an area of over 300 mu (20 hectares), the new phase involves the construction of 25 high-resolution radars, each with a diameter of 30 meters, and is expected to be completed in 2025.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an unprecedented solar phenomenon on February 2 when a massive bright filament of plasma broke off the sun's surface, forming a whirlpool swirling around the sun's northern pole.
"Talk about Polar Vortex!" the video clip was first shared by space weather physicist Tamitha Skov on Twitter. "Material from a northern prominence just broke away from the main filament & is now circulating in a massive polar vortex around the north pole of our Star."
"The kind of artificial intelligence we're talking about right now can sometimes lead to something we call hallucination."
The boss of Google's search engine warned against the pitfalls of AI in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to compete with blockbuster app ChatGPT.
Researchers have developed a prototype of a quadrotor that can both fly in the air and swim underwater, making it suitable for a wide range of applications.
Dubbed TJ-FlyingFish, the aerial-aquatic quadrotor weighs 1.63 kg with a wheelbase of 380 mm.
The orbiter of China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission. /CNSA
A trove of newly-discovered fossils in southwest China revealed how modern marine animals like fish and lobsters thrived quickly in the immediate aftermath of a mass extinction event over 250 million years ago.
The study published on Friday in the journal Science described the finely-preserved fossil assemblages unearthed near Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province.
