"Artificial Sun" Achieves Breakthrough

　　The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or the Chinese "artificial sun," achieved a steady-state high confinement plasma operation for 403 seconds on April 12, a key step toward a fusion reactor.

Solar Observation Probe Shares Data

　　The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), nicknamed Kuafu-1, started to share its quasi real-time observation data with scientists from home and abroad since April 12, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

　　Dinosaur Tracks Found in Restaurant

　　An international team of paleontologists have confirmed that the fossilized footprints found in a restaurant in southwest China were left by long-necked dinosaurs that lived on Earth around 100 million years ago. Their findings were published in the journal Cretaceous Research.

　　Shenzhou-15 Crew Complete 4th Spacewalk

　　The Shenzhou-15 taikonauts on board the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station completed their fourth spacewalk, the China Manned Space Agency said on April 15, setting a domestic record for the most spacewalks by a single crew.