Li Menghan
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- Oct 2, 2026
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Lightest neutron star pair discovered by FAST (opens the original)
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China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, or FAST, the world's most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, has discovered a binary neutron star system with an extremely short orbital period and the lowest total mass ever recorded, providing a new laboratory for studying matter under extreme conditions, testing theories of gravity and exploring the origins of heavy elements in the universe. The system, which contains a pulsar and is named PSR J1856-0039, completes one orbit e
'Trust that the deep blue will meet you halfway' (opens the original)
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On a modest 500-metric-ton research vessel bobbing off Zhanjiang in Guangdong province in 2022, Zhang Fan watched carefully as her team hauled instruments back onto the deck. The devices had spent weeks in total darkness several kilometers below the surface of the South China Sea, quietly recording signals from deep within the Earth. "When every single instrument came back intact, it felt like the ocean had returned a favor," said Zhang, now a principal investigator at the South China Sea Instit
Deep freeze (opens the original)
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On June 27, 2012, Tang Jialing sealed himself inside a 2.1-meter steel tube and descended into the depths of the Mariana Trench. The Jiaolong reached 7,062 meters, the deepest dive ever recorded by the submersible and, at the time, a world record for crewed dives by a working deep-sea submersible of its class. Now, as the technical lead of the Jiaolong, Tang's focus has shifted from the thrill of reaching the deep to the painstaking work of keeping the submersible operational. Last summer, that
Deep freeze (opens the original)
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On June 27, 2012, Tang Jialing sealed himself inside a 2.1-meter steel tube and descended into the depths of the Mariana Trench. The Jiaolong reached 7,062 meters, the deepest dive ever recorded by the submersible and, at the time, a world record for crewed dives by a working deep-sea submersible of its class. Now, as the technical lead of the Jiaolong, Tang's focus has shifted from the thrill of reaching the deep to the painstaking work of keeping the submersible operational. Last summer, that
Deep freeze (opens the original)
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On June 27, 2012, Tang Jialing sealed himself inside a 2.1-meter steel tube and descended into the depths of the Mariana Trench. The Jiaolong reached 7,062 meters, the deepest dive ever recorded by the submersible and, at the time, a world record for crewed dives by a working deep-sea submersible of its class. Now, as the technical lead of the Jiaolong, Tang's focus has shifted from the thrill of reaching the deep to the painstaking work of keeping the submersible operational. Last summer, that
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