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China's Tianzhou-5 cargo craft, tasked with supporting the Shenzhou-15 crewed space mission, separated from the orbiting space station combination on May 5 and switched to independent flight, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
New Breakthrough in Hybrid Potato Breeding
Scientists from Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences used evolutionary genomics to identify deleterious mutations in potato, which may help shorten the breeding process and cultivate more and better potato varieties. The study was published online in the journal Cell.
More Frequent Flash Droughts in Warmer Future
Based on data concerning drought events between 1951 and 2014, Chinese scientists predicted that flash droughts, or the rapid onset of drought, will be more frequent worldwide in the warmer future, according to the study published in the journal Science.