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  China’s first AI cardiologist eases pressure at short-staffed Shanghai hospital Decades of anonymised patient records have been used to train the system along with international research and treatment guidelines A Shanghai hospital has unveiled China’s first  artificial intelligence  system designed to mimic the diagnostic reasoning of the world’s leading cardiologists in a bid to tackle the country’s overwhelming demand for  cardiac care. CardioMind, developed jointly by Fudan University-affiliated Zhongshan Hospital and the Shanghai Academy of Artificial Intelligence for Science, compares patient histories and test results with global research to generate diagnostic suggestions. According to its creators, the system is not intended to be a replacement for physicians, but rather a “co-pilot” that can help overburdened doctors work faster and more accurately. “We’re feeding it cardiovascular data and teaching it to think like a top expert cardiologist,” said Ge Jun...

  China Focus: Scientists set new world record in light storage technology BEIJING -- Scientists have achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of light storage, setting a new world record by storing light information for an impressive 4,035 seconds. The study, mainly conducted by researchers from the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (BAQIS), has been published in the international journal Nature Communication. "Storing light has always been a challenge across the world," said Liu Yulong, an associate researcher at BAQIS and the first author of the study. Liu explained that photons, the particles of light, move at incredibly high speeds, making them nearly impossible to capture and store directly. To overcome this, the scientists have turned to sound signals, which are much slower and easier to store. The key was finding a medium capable of converting light signals into sound signals, effectively "trapping" light. "Think of photons as tiny...

  Study uncovers mystery behind birth of planetary-mass objects For over two decades, astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of planetary-mass objects, or PMOs, celestial bodies with planetary masses but not bound to any star. A recent study published in Science Advances may have cracked the code, revealing these cosmic orphans are born from violent collisions between newborn stars. An international team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory found that PMOs are likely formed in crowded stellar nurseries such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion constellation. This discovery not only solves a long-standing mystery but could also lead to a rewrite of cosmic classification rules. Previously, two theories attempted to explain the origins of PMOs. The "Failed Stars" hypothesis suggested that PMOs could form directly from collapsing molecular clouds, but their small size prevented nuclear fusion. The other, the "Exiled Planets" hypothesis, proposed that ...