Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors visit a "fiber optic spectrometer" at the "Fifth World PhotonicCongress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors visit the "Spectrometer" at the "Fifth World Photon Congress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

Chinese fiberglass giant donates cutting-edge research device to Egypt

STORY: Chinese fiberglass giant donates cutting-edge research device to Egypt DATELINE: May 14, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:26 LOCATION: Cairo CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of donation ceremony 2. various of joint lab 3. various of NRC acting president 4. various of meeting STORYLINE: China's fiberglass giant Jushi Group donated a cutting-edge research device to Egypt's National Research Center (NRC) on Thursday in a bid to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation in the fiberglass industry. The device, an Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometer (ICP), is an important tool that can provide powerful qualitative and quantitative analysis of the mineral composition of glass fiber. A ceremony was held to mark the donation at the factory of Jushi Egypt for Fiberglass Industry S.A.E. in the Suez Governorate in northern Egypt. "The donation is an important step in the construction of the China-Egypt Joint Laboratory for High Performance Fiberglass and Composites," said Zhang Huasheng, science and te

CHINA-HEFEI-SCIENCE ISLAND (CN)

CHINA-HEFEI-SCIENCE ISLAND (CN)

(230422) -- HEFEI, April 22, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Researcher Han Fusheng (1st L) and associate researcher Wang Xingfu (1st R) from a special aerospace metal materials research team of Institute of Solid State Physics of Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) instruct students to use direct-reading spectrometer at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of CAS in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, on April 19, 2023. Located on the outskirts of Hefei, "Science Island" is home to the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Science. On the "island," a group of scientific researchers, who focus on tackling key problems in aerospace technologies, satellite payloads and key components of spacecraft, are devoting themselves to the development of Chinese space industry. (Xinhua/Huang Bohan)

U.S. rover detects carbonates on Mars

U.S. rover detects carbonates on Mars

WASHINGTON, United States - The U.S. Spirit robotic rover has detected minerals, called carbonates, near its landing spot on Mars, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Jan. 9. The scientists found the presence of the minerals from data (shown) they received from an infrared instrument called a mini-thermal emission spectrometer. (NASA-Kyodo)