Chinese Academy of Sciences

About Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research institutes, 2 universities, 71,300 full-time employees, and 79,000 graduate students, and ranked first in the 2025 SCImago Institutions Rankings.
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The earliest examples of camouflage within insects were found in amber by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences led by Bo Wang. It's called debris camouflage — effectively carrying a leaf on top of you.
from 124: No Such Thing As A Screaming Scream, 2016-07-29 at 00:30:26 · read transcript
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Anyway, sorry, porpoises. So this is a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and they looked at 700 ancient Chinese poems dating back nearly 2,000 years, and then they've managed to work out the habitat that has been lost in the time, which is extensive. Is it like someone in the fifth century writes a poem saying, oh, I saw a great porpoise over here and it reminded me of...
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