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Popularizing Science Online
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popular Chinese video-sharing platform, have attracted widespread attention. The students are from
the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their live-stream once attracted a
record 1.44 million viewers.
When science meets Web culture, no clash occurs. Instead, the fusion creates an innovative way
to popularize science which has gained favor among young people.
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done this just for fun, but they are in fact popularizing science. What will happen if an atomic bomb is
thrown into a typhoon eye? Why hasn’t the sun evaporated? Why don’t raindrops hurt people since
they fall from so high? These questions, which seem playful, point to people’s desire to learn about
the unknown. It’s also lovely to see scientists from authoritative institutions in casual clothes in labs
attentively answering questions from fans.
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In a statement on July 15, the IBRO-Kemali Foundation Prize Committee said Hu
was selected in recognition of her impressive work on the fundamental neurobiologi-
cal mechanisms of emotional and affective behaviors. “Overall, she has an outstanding
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This is the first time the prize, which is awarded every two
years to an outstanding researcher under the age of 45, has been
awarded to a scientist outside Europe or North America since its
inception in 1998.
Hu graduated from Peking University in 1996 and the
University of California, Berkeley in 2002. She joined Zhejiang
University as executive director of the Center for Neuroscience in
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improving people’s livelihood.
Moreover, in order to create a more
favorable business environment, Ningxia
has improved services for enterprises by
streamlining administrative procedures. For
instance, the approval process for starting a
hospital was reduced from 215 days to just
seven days.
In addition, the region reduced the bur-
den on enterprises by 21.3 billion yuan ($3.
billion) by implementing tax and fee cuts in
2018.