Everyday China
Could bridge design become a city’s signature?
The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge gives those design questions a real structure. It opened in October 1957, linking Hanyang and Wuchang across the river.…
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What’s hard about going to the deepest ocean?
A deep-sea submersible needs to bring people down, help them work and bring them back safely.
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Everyday China
Can electricity take a long-distance trip?
A powerful transmission line solves one problem, then hands the electricity to a whole system.
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Where does an old car battery go?
The useful materials in an EV battery do not disappear when it leaves a car.
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What happens when the sun is too generous?
Building solar panels is only one part of making solar electricity useful.
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Everyday China
Could you build a robot for a teenage challenge?
A Beijing event included a robotics challenge for teenagers. The interesting part is not a perfect machine but how a team solves a problem together.
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Can a telescope listen to space?
China's FAST telescope in Guizhou studies radio signals rather than taking ordinary photographs of stars.
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Is two kilograms of Moon rock a lot?
Chang'e-6 returned less than two kilograms of material from the lunar far side. For scientists, a small box can hold a huge number of questions.
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A call to the far side of the Moon
Chang'e-6 worked on the far side of the Moon, where Earth is out of sight. A relay satellite helped the mission talk to home.
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History, Arts & Traditions
How can a river be guided without a dam?
The Dujiangyan system near Chengdu began more than 2,000 years ago and still helps direct river water across the plain.
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