After around a decade of persistent efforts, scientists in Shanghai have developed a breakthrough method to help clinically distinguish between Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy, two neurodegenerative diseases that are notoriously difficult to differentiate based on symptoms alone.

A Chinese-led international collaboration has unveiled Asia's first decade-long roadmap for building synthetic cells, a landmark blueprint that charts a systematic path toward creating artificial life from scratch. Spearheaded by Liu Chenli, director of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the initiative brought together over 100 laboratories across six Asian countries: China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

A new high-resolution climate study from China's Loess Plateau suggests that soil temperature, not just air temperature or rainfall, played a decisive role in shaping the spread of millet farming during the Neolithic period. Published earlier this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study offers new insight into a longstanding question surrounding early Chinese civilization: why millet agriculture, which emerged about 8,000 years ago, remained limited for nearly two millennia before expanding rapidly around 6,000 years ago.

A team of Chinese researchers has developed a new passivation strategy that significantly improves both the efficiency and operational stability of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, according to a recent research article published in the journal Matter.

A new study by an international joint research team has provided new major scientific basis for enhancing prediction capabilities of polar sea-ice changes by systematically assessing the warming amplification effect of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Chinese researchers have developed the world's first artificial intelligence-driven transmission electron microscope (AI-TEM) system, named "Aeye-1", marking a leap from manual operation to AI-driven fully autonomous operation. The AI-TEM system, developed by the team led by Deng and Professor Liu Wei at the DICP, passed a scientific and technological achievement evaluation on Sunday in Beijing organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation.

Powerful storms and drier air are speeding up the natural biomass turnover in the Amazon rainforest, potentially reducing its ability to store carbon for long periods of time, researchers have found. The study, led by the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Cornell University and other international partners, was published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

A Chinese research team has made a major advance in understanding high-temperature superconductivity, offering critical experimental evidence that sheds new light on its underlying mechanism. The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), successfully observed a "nodeless superconducting gap" and "electron-boson coupling" in nickel oxide high-temperature superconducting thin films for the first time.

In China, only a handful of scientists study them. but one researcher has spent more than 40 years building the foundation for lichen science in the country. Tao Yuan reports from Yunnan, a global lichen diversity hotspot.

In a coastal laboratory in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, a team of scientists is putting the final touches on an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to predict the ocean's most unpredictable behavior. Server hums echo across the research base of the Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), where whiteboards are covered with algorithmic flowcharts and a red marker circles the number "2.0."

It might be sunny, cloudy or even rainy here on Earth, but what about in space weather? Does space weather affect our daily lives? The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or China and Europe co-developed SMILE satellite, was sent into orbit from the French Guiana on May 19th to find out. CGTN's Wu Lei has more.

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher has spoken highly of the China-Europe SMILE mission, saying it demonstrates that well-governed international scientific cooperation can deliver real value that benefits the global scientific community. The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), a joint mission between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and ESA, was successfully launched on Tuesday aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite will improve understanding of solar storms, geomagnetic storms and the science of space weather.

Chinese astronomers have unveiled the mysterious origins of a young pulsar located in the Milky Way's halo, providing compelling observational evidence for the study of such objects' formation. The study, conducted by a team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal.

The China-Europe jointly developed Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) was launched into orbit on Tuesday, expected to usher in a new era in space weather forecasting and mark a deeper, more exemplary phase in China-Europe space science cooperation. The satellite was launched by a Vega-C rocket at the Kourou launch center in French Guiana.

Chinese researchers have successfully engineered a "biological pacemaker" in a petri dish, creating a sinoatrial node organoid that can be regulated by nerve cells to control the heartbeat, a breakthrough that offers a new platform for studying heart rhythm disorders and drug development.

The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is emerging as a key scientific frontier in China's response to climate change and ecological governance. As glacier retreat, river changes and shifts in alpine ecosystems draw growing attention, researchers are using long-term observations and systematic studies to better understand environmental changes on the plateau and support ecological security.

A new study by Chinese scientists is deepening the comprehension of the asynchronous relationship between climate change and permafrost degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A new study has found that climate warming is driving a widespread and sustained loss of oxygen in rivers around the world, putting freshwater ecosystems at risk. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, was conducted by a research team led by researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS).