★ Rights sold to Korea!
★ Nearly 50,000 copies sold! Presenting cutting-edge science and technology through fun science comics!
★ Created under the guidance of academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, accurately interpreted by a team of PhDs from Tsinghua and Peking University, and illustrated by a professional science comic team ensuring top-notch quality!
★ Recommended reading age: 5–12 years

This series includes 6 titles:
1. The "Ancestor" of Rice – Rapid de Novo Domestication of Allotetraploid Wild Rice
2. The "Porous Superman" of the Micro World – Ordered Mesoporous Materials
3. Earth's "Twin Brother" – The Earth System Numerical Simulation Facility
4. The "Compass" in the Sky – The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System
5. "Eye of the Universe" FAST
6. "Liquid" Sunlight – Solar Energy Conversion Technologies

This series presents cutting-edge scientific knowledge in the form of fun, engaging comics. It covers knowledge points from various scientific fields, such as "atoms and their structure" (physics), "reverse osmosis membranes" (chemistry), "the function of red blood cells in transporting oxygen" (biology), and "the positional relationship between two circles" (mathematics), all brought to life through lively comic illustrations.

In this book, readers are introduced to allotetraploid wild rice—a crop with enormous biomass, inherent hybrid vigor, and strong environmental adaptability. The successful rapid de novo domestication of this wild rice not only proves that technological innovation can overcome its non-domesticated traits, such as small seeds and easy shattering, but also provides a crucial pathway for creating and cultivating new crop species in the future. Moreover, it offers a new strategy for addressing future food crises.

【Author】Elemental Coffee
Hu Yang, Wu Dan, and Wang Kai co-founded the well-known chemistry popularization society "Elemental Coffe”whose creators all graduated from Tsinghua University, aiming to popularize the knowledge of chemical science and cultivate scientific thinking methodology to the public through original and high-quality content.
The team has authored a series of popular science books called "Chemistry in Everything" (all five volumes), which has won more than ten honors, including the "2022 National Outstanding Science Popularization Works" sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, the second annual "Kids Read China" award sponsored by the All-China Women's Federation's China Children's Center, "2022 Recommended Books for Capital Popularization of Science" and "Smiling Rainbow Public Welfare Book List" sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Association for Science and Technology.

【Author】Wang Haoyuan
Hao Yuan Wang, B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Physics from Peking University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of California, San Diego, is now a photolithography industrialist and popular science writer. He is also the winner of the third prize of the International Competition of Science Popularization Video Creation for the Promotion of Public Science Quality, and the Newcomer Award of the Three-Minute Science Treasure Award of "BiliBiLi". He has participated in the preparation of the book "Star Molecule", and published many popular science articles, such as "How to Observe Galaxies", "Principles of Extreme Ultraviolet Photolithography", and "The Strange Encounter with Boyle", of which "The Strange Encounter with Boyle" was honored as the "New Star" by the China Popular Science Writers Association in 2020.

【Author】Feng Zhi
Dr. Feng Zhi is a doctor of biology from Tsinghua University and a popular science writer. He is the author of "5-minute Biology Lesson: 100 Interesting Quizzes that Open the Mind", the translator of "Oxford History of Plants: 400 Years of Botanical Stories", and his audio album "Amazing Animal Paradise" has been officially recorded by Himalaya.

【Author】Earth System Numerical Modeling Facility Engineering Office
Earth System Numerical Modeling Facility Engineering Office, is under the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. "Earth system numerical simulation device" for the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" major scientific and technological infrastructure construction projects, is a special Earth system numerical simulator with independent intellectual property rights in China, with the core of numerical simulation software for various layers of the Earth system, compatible software and hardware indicators, and the scale and comprehensive technical level of the Earth system at the forefront of the world, whose construction corporation is Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and co-construction unit is Tsinghua University.
Members of the team include: Cao Meichun, Zhang Mulan, Zhang He, Wu Chenglai, Tang Xiao, Zheng Weipeng, Hua Fei, He Juanxiong, Zhang Dongling, Jin Jiangbo, Chai Zhaoyang, Yu Zipeng, Gao Xin, Luan Yihua, Zhang Jinjin, Zhou Shaoyang, and Wang Tong.

【Painter】Cow Cat Team
Cow Cat's real name is Su Lalan. She graduated from China Academy of Art as an undergraduate, and graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Pyrénées in France as a Master's Degree. She is the co-founder of Sheldon Comics, a children's book author and illustrator. She and science writer Li Jianlong co-authored the science popularization comic books, such as "Come Eat Me If You Can", "Animal Explosion" and "Comic Carbon Neutral". Other popular science comic books she has drawn with the Cow Cat team include "New Technology", "I Don't Want This Ass", "Physics Explosion", "Did God Roll the Dice? A History of Quantum Physics," "The Wonderful World of Quantum," and others. Some of these books have been recommended by the Wenjin Award, some have won the China Good Book Award, and some have been published and distributed abroad. The cumulative sales of these books have exceeded 2.5 million copies!