Farthest Offshore Wind Farm Gets Full Grid Connection

China's most offshore wind project — the Three Gorges Jiangsu Dafeng 800 MW offshore wind farm — achieved full grid connection on December 15. The project comprises four sites with the farthest point extending 85.5 kilometers offshore. It is expected to generate over 2.8 billion kW of electricity annually, which equates to saving approximately 860,000 tonnes of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by about 2.37 million tonnes.

First Level-3 Autonomous Driving Permits Issued

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released China's first Level-3 autonomous driving vehicle permits for two models that will conduct pilot operation on designated areas in Beijing and Chongqing. The approvals were given to Changan Automobile and BAIC Motor's Arcfox. The highest speed for their autonomous driving could reach 50 km/h and 80 km/h respectively.

World's First Human Heart-like Organoids Developed

Using donated human stem cells, a research team at Michigan State University has successfully developed the world's first human heart-like organoids to study atrial fibrillation (A-fib). These organoids exhibit A-fib characteristics when exposed to inflammatory environments. This breakthrough provides an unprecedented living human tissue model for studying arrhythmias, potentially breaking the 30-year impasse in new treatment development for this field.

Miniature New Device for High-precision Laser Manipulation

A joint research team from the University of Colorado Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories has developed an ultra-miniature optical phase modulator. Measuring one-hundredth the diameter of a human hair, this device manipulates laser frequencies with exceptional precision and minimal power consumption, laying a crucial foundation for future large-scale quantum computers.