Turtle tracks

RESEARCHERS have discovered a possible turtle swim track from the Third Member of the Late Triassic Xujiahe Formation in Pengzhou City of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

The discovery adds to the Late Triassic fauna in Pengzhou and suggests that there may be more vertebrate fossil records to uncover.

HPV vaccinations

HEALTH experts called for strengthening vaccination for human papillomavirus among teenage girls and ramping up production of HPV vaccines as China joined the global initiative to accelerate the elimination of cervical cancer.

Zhao Fanghui, a professor at the National Cancer Center, said at a recent seminar that China registered about 109,000 new cervical cancer cases and 59,000 related deaths in 2020, and each number accounted for about one-fifth of the world’s total.

Lunar sample data

CHINA’S space agency published yesterday the online database of the 6th batch of lunar samples brought back by the Chang’e-5 probe.

The Chang’e-5 probe, which returned to Earth on Dec. 17, 2020, retrieved a total of 1,731 grams of lunar samples, mainly rocks and soil from the lunar surface.