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Here's the news. A Chinese research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in wireless energy transfer and positioning, with findings published in the international academic journal, Nature Communications.
As the rapid development of smart devices using technology such as the Internet of Things, smart homes, drones, and wearables continues, providing reliable and sustainable energy supply to these devices has become a pressing technological challenge.
Traditional wireless charging relies on close proximity and high -power electromagnetic induction which is limited by spatial, environmental, and equipment constraints.
A team from the School of Electronic Engineering at Chidoen University has successfully developed prototype system based on dual -frequency metasurfaces for wireless energy transfer.
Sensing, positioning, and communication.
This system enables adaptive tracking of wireless energy transfer, potentially making dynamic wireless charging more efficient.
According to team leader, Li Lo, the technology can intelligently adjust the transmission parameters of electromagnetic waves optimizing wireless energy transfer efficiency in real time based on environmental changes and device requirements.
Compared to traditional wireless charging methods the new technology has significant advantages.
It supports efficient non -contact wireless charging for multiple terminal devices in motion such as drones and smart robots providing stable and efficient power supply and thus overcoming the limitations of traditional wireless charging technology this is special English according to Shanghai Customs China's first domestically built large cruise whose ship, Adora Magic City, has completed eighty -four journeys, with six hundred thousand inbound and outbound visits in the first year of its commercial operation.
The ship embarked on its maiden voyage on January 1, 2024 and gained popularity among tourists accounting for 40 % of China's international cruise market.
it. Meanwhile, China's second homegrown large cruise ship is expected to be delivered by the end of 2026 and will start international journeys from Guangzhou in 2027.
China's cruise economy is witnessing a steady recovery bolstered by the visa -free policy for international tourists and the resurgence of the global cruise market.
Market analysts said that the cruise economy plays a crucial role in expanding domestic demand, unlocking consumption potential and cultivating new economic drivers.
To boost the industry, China has implemented a series of targeted policies.
In May 2024, a policy was rolled out allowing visa -free entry for foreign tourist groups arriving on cruise ships at any of the country's cruise ports along the coastline.
In June, new regulations were unveiled to facilitate the replenishment of supplies for international cruises at Chinese ports.
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The restored statues of a pair of fossil human skulls dating back to one million years ago have been unveiled by the Hubei Provincial Museum in central China.
Two sets of ancient fossil human skulls were unearthed in 1989 and 1990 in Hubei Province.
In 1994, paleoanthropologist Jia Lanpo named the fossils Yun Qianmen, after the location where they were excavated.
The analysis concluded that the fossils belonged to Homo erectus and are roughly one million years old, and they were from a male and a female, aged between twenty -five and forty -five.
The Restoration Project engaged researchers from the Hubei Provincial Museum, Shenxi University, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as Wuhan University and Beijing Union University.
They used the modeling techniques such as sculpture, painting, and computer images to restore the faces of the skulls.
The Yunxian man, fossil human skulls, are the most complete ones found in Eurasia for the same era, providing key evidence for the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in east Asia.
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Chinese archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient city road dating back over 3 ,000 years at Yen Shu or the Yin Ruins in central China's Henan province.
The archaeologists have carried out excavations and confirmed the presence of a north -south main road featuring a 1 .6 kilometer long ditch and dense wheel ruts on its surface.
This discovery marks the longest urban thoroughfare ever found at the which had been the capital of the late Shang Dynasty which spanned from 1600 BC to 1046 BC.
The new discovery was revealed by the National Cultural cultural heritage administration.
According to Nyosurshan, who is in charge of the excavation work, fine sand, mixed with fragments of pottery and small stones was found on the road surface.
Cultural relics such as bronze horse bits flats and stone axes have also been unearthed from the surrounding soil.
Niu said that this road was likely bustling with carriages and horses, teaming with the constant flow of traffic over 3 ,000 years ago.
This new discovery, along with previously uncovered remains of multiple roads and ditches, reveals an urban road network pattern of the Shang Dynasty capital, featuring a grid of three main east -west roads, and three main north -south roads.
Nyou Shi Shan, also a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social sciences noted that these findings mark a significant breakthrough in the study of the urban planning and layout of the capital city of the Shang dynasty.
Situated in Henan's Anyang City, the 3 ,300 year old Yin Ruins is the first documented late Shang Dynasty capital site in China, as confirmed by archaeological excavations and oracle bone inscriptions.
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Do you think humans are born with an innate moral nature?
Or is this something we developed later in our lives?
Don't feel discouraged if you can't think of a solid answer.
After After all, whether humans are born good or evil remains an un -solved issue, even after thousands of years of debate.
There are those such as the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle who argued that we are born as amoral creatures then there are people on the side of the nineteenth century Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud who consider newborns a moral blank slate.
However, what you might not know is that close to Aristotle's time, there were two Confucian scholars, Mincis and Xunzi, who put forward a similar argument during the warring state's period of Chinese history more than 2 ,000 years ago.
Better known as Manzi Mencius was a very important Chinese thinker.
Some would say he was second only to Confucius himself.
He interpreted the thoughts of Confucius while simultaneously interpreting the teachings with his own philosophical ideas.
Mencius is most famous for his theory that all human beings are born with an innate goodness.
It can either be trained through education and self -discipline, or squandered through negative influences and lack of practice.
mencius, but all in all humans by nature are good, and whereas mencius stands for self -cultivation as a natural tendency embedded in us at birth, shunze on the other hand is popularly known for the opposite.
He believed that our nature naturally inclines toward conflict and disorder, and that we would need to radically reform them, not develop them.
He argued that if If people were born to be good by nature, then we should all just let ourselves be.
There would be no need for ritual and social norms to organize the order of the world.
In the view of Sun Tzu, these rules, man -made standards, and the spirit of self -discipline were created precisely because people do not act in accordance with them naturally.
both Mencius and Xunzi's perspectives share optimism about human perfectibility through learning, but they view the learning curve quite differently.
Let's pause a moment at China's Ming dynasty in the 16th century, where we find one Chinese thinker who shook the philosophical landscape of ancient China, Japan and even Western countries.
Best known for his theory on the unity of knowledge and action, this great man is one one of the most influential philosophers, following the Confucian tradition, who was dedicated to promoting what has become known as Neo -Confucianism.
Maybe you've guessed by now who this person is.
The towering figure I am describing here is called Wang Yang Ming.
By upholding the typical Neo -Confucian premise, Wang Yang Ming followed the mensiest tradition and believed that people are all born with an innate knowing of goodness in their nature, and according to him, it is not something that we could acquire by learning, and thus Thus efforts are not needed for forming this type of knowing, but rather for setting it in motion, and once we follow that intuition and do good things, it aligns our action with the innate goodness.
Even people lose sight of their innate knowledge because of self -desires.
They are always able to find ways to restore it once they decide to move back to the right track.
This idea is very encouraging, right?
Here is a popular example of Wang Yangming's teachings, known as the Four Sentence Philosophy, which could be roughly translated as the following.
The transcendent mind of a man is neither good nor bad, it is the volition under the sway of the dispositional mind that results in the judgments of the worldly good and bad.
Our conscience lies in the innate knowing of good and evil, and to practice good deeds and willingly get rid of evil is to align our action with our nature.
To put it simply, the heart and mind in themselves know no evil, there are only good and bad at actions and events, the trick is recognizing what is good and what is bad, and using that knowledge to reject evil.
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According to Shanghai Customs, China's first domestically built large cruise ship, Adora Magic City, has completed 84 journeys with 600 ,000 inbound and outbound visits in the first year of its commercial operation.
The ship embarked on its maiden voyage on January 1, 2024 and gained popularity among tourists, accounting for 40 % of China's international cruise market.
Meanwhile, China's second homegrown large cruise ship is expected to be delivered by the end of 2026 and will start international journeys from Guangzhou in 2027.
China's cruise economy is witnessing a steady recovery bolstered by the visa -free policy for international tourists and the resurgence of the global cruise market.
Market analysis said that the cruise economy plays a crucial role in expanding domestic demand, unlocking consumption potential, and cultivating new economic drivers.
To boost the industry, China has implemented a series of targeted policies.
In May 2024, a policy was rolled out allowing visa -free entry for foreign tourist groups arriving on cruise ships at any of the country's cruise ports along the coastline.
In June, new regulations were unveiled to facilitate the replenishment of supplies for international cruises at Chinese ports.
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