On April 9, the 2025 annual working meeting of the "Black Soil Granary" science and technology initiative was held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, highlighting a series of research and application outcomes aimed at safeguarding China's black soil resources and strengthening agricultural sustainability.
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While paleontologists have uncovered dozens of such Cambrian soft-bodied fossil sites—including China's early Cambrian Chengjiang biota in Yunnan and Canada's middle Cambrian Burgess Shale biota, the most famous examples of their kind—no equivalent top-tier soft-bodied fossil deposit had ever been found from the critical post-Sinsk Event time interval. That changed over the past five years, however, with the discovery of the Huayuan biota—a world-class soft-bodied fossil deposit dating to shortly after the Sinsk Event.
A research team led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has confirmed that lunar observations provide a unique solution to accurately capturing Earth's outgoing radiation—an essential step in understanding the planet's radiation budget, which is closely tied to global climate and environmental changes.
Led by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team—which included researchers from China, Australia, Spain, and the United States—conducted multidisciplinary archaeological investigations at the Xigou site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir region of central China. Their work yielded evidence of sophisticated stone tool technologies dating from 160,000 to 72,000 years ago, revealing that hominins in the region were far more innovative and adaptable than previously thought.
A research team led by Prof.YU Xuefeng from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a knowledge-driven multi-agent and robot system (MARS) for end-to-end autonomous materials discovery.
The Mohe Station of the China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station is China's northernmost satellite data receiving station. Normally the facility has only one staff member on duty, but as the Spring Festival approaches, four of its staff members have gathered in severe cold weather to conduct thorough winter inspections and maintenance.
Scientists have developed a new type of crystal, marking a significant advance in the field of vacuum ultraviolet laser light. After sustained research into the fundamental theories and core technologies of vacuum ultraviolet nonlinear optical materials, a team of researchers from the institute successfully developed an ammonium fluorooxoborate (ABF) crystal. Their findings were published in the journal Nature on Thursday.
Chinese scientists observed a tunable prethermal plateau in a 78-qubit quantum processor, showing how random multipolar driving controls the system's heating before full thermalization. The study, led by researchers from the Institute of Physics under the CAS and Peking University, was published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: the first mass extinction of complex animal life. This event, known as the Sinsk event, struck about 513 million years ago. It occurred not long after the Cambrian explosion, a remarkable period during which all major animal groups first appeared in the oceans.
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