The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Tuesday the launch of a new program aimed at achieving breakthroughs at the frontiers of science and producing major original research achievements in key fields.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released its development plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), setting priority directions for sci-tech breakthroughs in three major fields: basic research, strategic high technologies and sustainable development.

A team at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) developed the modified-clay technology based on flocculation and sedimentation, providing a practical solution to that challenge. Recently, at a UNESCO conference in Paris this summer, a global scientific program on harmful algal bloom mitigation, led by the IOCAS, was unveiled. From the Bohai Sea to Malaysian waters and Turkey's Gulf of Izmir, a technology developed in China has become an increasingly visible tool in global efforts to mitigate HABs.

Nestled in a natural karst depression in Pingtang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope – known to the world as FAST, or "China Sky Eye" – marks its 10th anniversary in 2026. As large as 30 football pitches and composed of 4,450 reflector panels, it has quietly reshaped humanity's understanding of the universe from its mountain cradle.

In a recent study, researchers used joint observations from China's Einstein Probe satellite and the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory to discover, around a pulsar roughly 4,600 light-years from Earth, an extraordinarily long X-ray trail never before seen in its entirety. The trail runs in precisely the same direction as the ultra-high-energy gamma-ray radiation detected by LHAASO.

The linear accelerator of the Hefei Advanced Light Facility (HALF) successfully generated and delivered an electron beam on Sunday, marking a key step forward in the construction of the world's most advanced fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facility in the low-energy range.

From soil ecological restoration to innovation in farming models, and from sky-ground monitoring to molecular breeding chips, Chinese scientists are deploying an integrated strategy to protect the country's precious black soil and maximize its value.

China's StarWhisper Telescope has been cited in Stanford University's AI Index Report 2026 as a leading 2025 case study for AI agents in physics, astronomy, chemistry and materials science. Led by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), StarWhisper explores how large models and AI agents can be integrated with telescope control systems, helping with scientific observations under varying environmental and equipment conditions.

Solar activity not only affects temperatures on Earth's surface, but can also "control" climate change in the deep sea, according to a group of Chinese researchers. Using eight decades of ocean reanalysis, they showed that the 11-year solar cycle robustly modulates the volume of a subsurface water mass in the North Pacific Ocean, the North Pacific Eastern Subtropical Mode Water (NPESTMW), said the researchers in an article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A new study suggests that music may help people bounce back from stress not just by distracting them, but by reshaping how the brain handles stress over time. The research, led by researchers from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Chinese researchers have unveiled a lightweight dual-model collaborative AI agent for materials research, enabling AI not only to "think" but also to "act." The agent, named MatBrain, improves comprehensive prediction accuracy in materials science by 66 percent over large models, including GPT-5 and DeepSeek-R1, while cutting hardware deployment costs by 95 percent.

A science museum focused on pterosaurs, a winged reptile closely related to dinosaurs, opened on Sunday in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. The world's first of its kind, this museum is located in a national geopark in Xinjiang's Hami region, a location renowned for abundant pterosaur fossil discoveries.

Chinese scientists have built the world's first industrial extraction column system for recovering and separating rubidium and cesium from low-grade resources associated with lithium ores, with the technology achieving stable production of high-purity products and commercial products already entering the market.

Scientists have discovered the first-ever fossil of a Denisovan forearm bone in southwest China's Yunnan Province. This discovery provides new insights into how these mysterious ancient human relatives lived and adapted to their environments.

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has detected 156,411 neutral hydrogen sources across nearly half the sky, marking a major breakthrough in radio astronomy. The findings, published as a cover story in the journal Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, position FAST as the new global reference in hydrogen survey research.

The mudslide disaster on August 26 differs from past glacial collapses in several key ways, and Nepal's response experiences can be assessed from two angles, a senior Nepali geologist told the Global Times, citing his own research and front-line exchanges. Considering China-Nepal cooperation mechanisms, he suggested that the current framework should move toward a more proactive joint monitoring network that combines remote sensing with real-time collaborative data analysis.

A Chinese-developed airborne wind power system has completed a full-cycle test at an altitude of 4,000 meters, marking a step toward the engineering application of high-altitude wind power technology, Beijing Daily reported on Wednesday.

A new study from China has found that men and women age in strikingly different ways -- and the clues lie hidden in the results of everyday blood tests and health checkups. Researchers looked at health data from more than 104,000 adults across China, aged 18 to 98. They focused on 172 common measurements, like weight, cholesterol, and blood sugar. From this, they built special "aging clocks" to show when human bodies go through the biggest changes over time.