In 1952, a killer fog containing pollutants covered London for five days, causing breathing problems […]
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Team cracks mystery of London’s ‘killer fog’
Posted by Keith Randall-Texas A&M on November 15th, 2016
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No Comments »Complaints on Weibo predict Chinese air pollution
Posted by Mike Williams-Rice on September 26th, 2016
The social media comments of people in China’s megacities can give environmental scientists information about local […]
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Posted in Science General Tags: 8221 wallach says, accurate, all this data, appeared, Average, Beijing, bigrams, Censorship, Chengdu, China, chinese, cities, collected, complain, complaints, computer, concentrations, conditions, correlate, correlated, Cubic Meter, discussion, embassy, engineering, environmental, frequency, grouse, Guangzhou, information, leader, levels, matter, measure, Megacities, meters, Micrograms, million, millions, others, particulate, Particulate Matter, People, people complain, per cubic meter, percent, Pollutant, Pollution, Pollution Levels, predict, predict chinese, professor, quality, readings, really, related, researchers, Scientists, Shanghai, Social, Social Media, something, surprised, there&, university, wallach, weibo posts, weibo predict, weibo predict chinese No Comments »Science bolsters the tale of China’s Great Flood
Posted by Hannah Hickey-UW on August 8th, 2016
A new study offers evidence to support stories that a huge flood took place in […]
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Posted in Physics, Science General, Technology Tags: 8221 montgomery says, ancient, bolsters, China, Control, course, Emperor, evidence, Flooding, Floods, Great Flood, Landslide, montgomery, Science, science bolsters, stories, tales about, the yellow river, university, WASHINGTON, yellow, Yellow River No Comments »China’s new supercomputer blows everything else out the water
Posted by John Hopton on June 22nd, 2016
Until very recently the fastest supercomputer in the world belonged to China. It has now been replaced by the Sunway TaihuLight – also from China. In fifteen years China has gone from having zero supercomputers in the top 500 to having more than any other country. Oh, and the TaihuLight uses chips made solely in China. It will be 2018 before anything faster comes […]
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Posted in Science General, Technology Tags: anything, blows everything, blows everything else, China, Computing, Desktop, everything, faster, fastest, future, Leadership, National, new supercomputer blows, People, performance, Science, Supercomputer, supercomputer blows, supercomputer blows everything, Supercomputers, system, taihulight, they’re, together, working No Comments »China’s Xi: More Social Science, But With More Socialism
Posted by Social Science Space on May 18th, 2016
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the primacy of philosophy and social science in building a strong China, but he also said the disciplines must retain and enhance ‘Chinese characteristics’ like Marxism in the process.
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