Advances at Oregon State University in manufacturing technology for “quantum dots” may soon lead to a new generation of LED lighting that produces a more user-friendly white light, while using less toxic materials and low-cost ...
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Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. While the design ...
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A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously and unobtrusively, furthering efforts to create smart spaces in which people control their environment with simple gestures. ...
To many Chinese, the early 1980s were part of a "golden era" for idealists. A romance film named after the decade has recently made a nostalgic splash among those missing their lost youth and dreams. Love in the 1980s, adapted from a ...
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Runners of all abilities are attracted to take part in the Asian Sky Running Championship Race in Hong Kong. This February saw the first ever Asian Sky Running Championship race come to Hong Kong. The competition is one of the most ...
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Soraa Inc of Fremont, CA, USA, which develops solid-state lighting technology built on 'GaN on GaN' (gallium nitride on gallium nitride) substrates, is to open a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Syracuse, NY. In partnership with the ...
On the morning of Sept 8, a student in Anhui province was bicycling outside her college campus when she spotted an old lady down on the ground, screaming. She stopped to help. The "granny", as women in their senior years are often ...
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China is facing a reading crisis, with more than 50 percent of people surveyed believing their reading is far from enough, and only 20 percent satisfied with themselves. According to Xu Shengguo, head of the Chinese Academy of Press and ...
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An annual dialogue between American and Chinese college students has taken place in Beijing. This year's event has asked the question: How much do we know about each other? In an attempt to answer it, college students from Chinese and ...
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Li Biao Percussion Band celebrates its staying power with a national tour, Chen Jie reports. While it is easy to start a new project in China, it is usually difficult to sustain it, especially for a decade. But percussionist Li Biao has ...
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Following the success of Secret Garden, the best-selling coloring book for adults, coloring books and products sales have been booming in China. Even The Assassin Nie Yinniang, a film screened in late August, published a coloring album as a ...
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Diao, 72, was born in Chengdu, China, but moved to New York City at a very young age. He attended Kenyon College in Ohio and studied philosophy, but soon found the academic world just wasn’t for him. Instead of class, Diao spent most ...
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Fu Yiqing's life has many facets. She runs a successful interior decoration business, and travels to scores of countries to learn about local handicraft skills. Her installation art works have drawn huge crowds and more than 90,000 saw her ...
Street performers say licenses provide a place to show off their talentsand some much-needed social recognition, reports Li Xueqing in Shanghai. One Friday afternoon in September, Xing Zhenhua opened his guitar case and began singing in ...
The famous Chinese cardiologist Zhang Shu, 56, was the main official at this year's World Congress of Arrhythmias, which was held in Beijing from Sept 17-19. As the secretary-general of the World Society of Arrhythmias that is held once ...
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