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Orchid Island Mooring Array Will Feed Subsea Quake Catalog Within Ninety Days

Scientists anchored a nine-instrument mooring array off Orchid Island that will feed Taiwan’s subsea earthquake catalog within ninety days of the first data download.

Kuan-Yu Yang 楊冠宇

Muddy river valley with monitoring equipment on a steel pole and sediment-covered banks under grey monsoon clouds, no logos or readable text

Water Resources Agency Deploys Mataian River Lake Gauges in NT$85 Billion Danas Package

Water Resources Agency teams installed river-lake gauges along the Mataian system as Cabinet amendments pushed Typhoon Danas recovery funding toward NT$85 billion.

Kuan-Yu Yang 楊冠宇

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CVD-Grown 1H MoS₂ Bilayer Lands in Nature With NTNU-NCKU Research Team

A Taiwan-led team reported CVD-grown 1H-stacked bilayer MoS₂ with a direct band gap in Nature, with NSTC highlighting NTNU and NCKU work published after Oct. 2 agency briefings on valleytronic potential.

Kuan-Yu Yang 楊冠宇

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Formosat-8A Chi Po-lin Frames Show Chiayi Paddy Health at 0.7-Meter Resolution

Taiwan Space Agency imagery from the Formosat-8A Chi Po-lin satellite is resolving Chiayi paddy fields at 0.7-meter detail, giving agronomists a red-edge view of crop stress before the autumn harvest.

Kuan-Yu Yang 楊冠宇

Workers in white protective suits and blue boot covers walking along rows of empty poultry barns on a rural farm road, overcast sky, mud on tires, no logos or readable text.

Cabinet Activates Level-One H5N6 Command as Cull Compensation Debate Widens

Taiwan’s agriculture ministry escalated its H5N6 avian flu response to a level-one command after a fifth farm case surfaced, as lawmakers debate higher cull payouts and market movement bans.

Kuan-Yu Yang 楊冠宇

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