New Optical Fiber with Bendy Ice Created

　　Scientists from China and the United States have made "bendy" and "super clear" ice optical fibers. Making optical fibers from ice or water can help develop micro/nano ice-based technologies in specific application scenarios, such as using them as a research platform to analyze viral spectra.

　　China's Xuelong 2 Sets Sail for 12th Arctic Expedition

　　China's first self-developed research icebreaker Xuelong 2 started the country's 12th Arctic expedition on July 12. The vessel will take a journey of about 15,000 nautical miles to the North Pole and return to Shanghai by September this year.

　　China Launches Satellites Four Times in Seven Days

　　A Long March-6 carrier rocket carrying the Zhongzi-02 satellite group blasted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on July 9, marking the 4th launch of Chinese satellites within seven days.

　　First Batch of Lunar Soil Distributed to National Researchers

　　The lunar soil samples, weighing about 17.5 grams, were handed over to scientists from 13 domestic research organizations on July 12, marking China's official launch of the scientific research on the Moon samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 mission last December.

　　New Metafabric for Scalable Passive Daytime Radiative Cooling Invented

　　Chinese researchers managed to create a type of metafabric, covered by which the human body could be passively cooled down roughly 4.8℃ lower than that covered by commercial cotton fabric based on one of the conducted tests.