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The 2026 International Congress of Basic Science or ICBS opens in Beijing on the weekend with the inaugural ICBS medals honoring scientists whose breakthroughs have advanced mathematics, physics, engineering, and so on. Among them is Professor Wang Yifang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, whose work has driven China's rise in neutrino physics, which help ... Show More

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