Tianzhou-2 Cargo Craft Starts the Return Journey

　　Tianzhou-2 left the core module of China's Tiangong space station after completing all of its scheduled tasks at 3:59 pm (BT) on March 27, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The spacecraft will enter the Earth's atmosphere at an appropriate time under ground control.

　　Hualong One Reactor Realizes Full Operation

　　Located in the city of Fuqing in east China's Fujian province, the No. 6 unit, the country's second nuclear power unit using Hualong One, has met requirements for commercial operation, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation. This also marks the full operation of Hualong One reactor demonstration project.

　　Most Precise Large Samples of Stellar Ages Gained via LAMOST and Gaia Data

　　Astronomers obtained the most accurate information regarding the large samples of stellar ages based on the observation data by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in China and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and drew the images in terms of how the Milky Way took shape and evolved in its infant and juvenile stages.

　　Rapid Nucleic Acid Test Developed to Detect COVID-19 Variants

　　Scientists from Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital and South China University of Technology developed an RT-LAMP method to detect the novel coronavirus and Delta variants, which takes only about an hour and appears to be 100 percent accurate in the detection.