Technology News丨Omicron strain becomes a "serious threat" to the UK; Japanese wholesalers sell Chinese eels as Japanese-made

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On December 18, the winter scenery of Yani National Wetland Park in Linzhi City, Tibet Autonomous Region was particularly beautiful. The national wetland park is located at the confluence of the Yarlung Zangbo River and the Niyang River in Milin County and Bayi District, with the river surface at an altitude of 2,920 meters. Photo by Gongga Laisong, a reporter from China News Service

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Image source: China Institute of Atomic Energy

●On December 18, my country's first deep earth nuclear astrophysics experiment project JUNA released its first batch of experimental results. The measurement sensitivity and statistical accuracy of the first four nuclear astrophysics key reaction experiments released were higher than the level of similar international devices, reaching the maximum exposure, widest energy range and highest sensitivity of international nuclear astrophysics direct measurement. So far, my country has become the third country in the world capable of conducting deep earth nuclear astrophysics research. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)

●On December 19, the runner of the No. 9 million-kilowatt unit of the Baihetan Hydropower Station, which was undertaken by China Energy Construction Gezhouba Electromechanical Company, was successfully hoisted into place. So far, the "heart" of the 16 million-kilowatt units of the Baihetan Hydropower Station has been fully installed. (Source: China News Network)

Pure Technology

In the physical desert of the high-energy region, there is a small new physical oasis, which is amplified to the observable range by the resonance gain mechanism and detected by the primordial gravitational wave telescope. Image credit: European Space Agency/Planck Collaboration

● Professor Cai Yifu of the University of Science and Technology of China led an international cooperation team to discover that when the infant universe was in the "desert" energy zone of high-energy physics, there was a primordial gravitational wave resonance nonlinear theory phenomenon. Through this phenomenon, the primordial gravitational wave signal can be amplified by 4 to 6 orders of magnitude or even larger, so that it can be detected by the detector and can be used to verify some theoretical models of the origin of the universe that are "untouchable" by traditional physics. The results were recently published in Physical Review Letters. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)

●Recently, Nature Communications published the latest results of a joint research team online. The study found for the first time that the loss of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) in liver cancer activates NF-κB signaling, which in turn upregulates the iron-chelating cytokine LCN2, promotes the occurrence and development of tumors, and leads to tumor resistance to ferroptosis-inducing drugs. This study provides a new strategy for safely and effectively targeting ferroptosis to treat tumors. (Source: China Science Daily)

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After the incident, the company's head bowed and apologized for the eel fraud. Image source: Asahi Shimbun

● According to a report by Japan's Mainichi Shimbun on the 19th, a company engaged in the wholesale of fresh food in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, sold eels imported from China as eels produced in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The company also said that such fraud has been going on for 5 years. According to statistics, among the more than 30,000 eels sold by the company recently, at least 6,640 were of Chinese origin. (Source: Guancha.com)

On December 19, local residents lined up to receive the vaccine at a vaccination center near the Houses of Parliament in London, UK. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Ying

●The British government's emergency scientific advisory group said on the 18th local time that there are "hundreds of thousands" of new cases of Omicron infection in England every day. British Prime Minister Johnson said that the Omicron strain has become a "very serious threat" to the UK. (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

Grand View Garden

The "Olympic Team" arrived in Macau. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Jinjia

●At the invitation of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, the mainland Olympic athletes delegation arrived in Macao on the 19th to carry out a three-day exchange activity. The Macao Special Administrative Region held a welcoming ceremony at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Port to welcome the arrival of the Olympic athletes. The delegation members include Su Bingtian, Ma Long and other 29 athletes who achieved good results in the Tokyo Olympics and 3 coaches. (Source: CCTV News Client)

●According to the Russian newspaper, British scientists recently released the world's alcohol consumption in 2021. Regarding the questions "How often do you have a drink?" and "Are you often drunk?", the survey results show that Australians have the highest frequency of drunkenness in the world, with an average of 27 times per person per year, an average of at least twice a month. Denmark and Finland ranked second (23.8 times), the United States (23.1 times) and the United Kingdom (22.5 times) ranked fourth and fifth respectively. (Source: Reference News)

●On the 17th local time, the global daily chemical giant Procter & Gamble of the United States issued an announcement that it was actively recalling a number of spray-type shampoo and conditioner products of four brands including Pantene produced in the United States due to the detection of the carcinogen benzene. On December 19, Procter & Gamble China issued a statement saying that the recall only involved some dry hair spray products in North America, not shampoo and hair care products, nor the Chinese market. The relevant products were all produced in the United States and were not imported into China. All products sold in the Chinese market comply with relevant national laws and regulations. (Source: CCTV Finance)

Source: Science and Technology Daily

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