China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is replacing a critical component with domestically produced technology for the first time, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered new insights into the history of asteroid impacts on the Earth-moon system by analyzing lunar soil samples returned by China's Chang'e-6 mission. The study, led by researcher Lin Yangting's team, suggests that carbonaceous asteroids – long considered potential carriers of water and organic materials to the Earth-moon system and closely linked to the emergence of Earth's habitable environment – began impacting the Earth-moon system later than previously thought.

The international collaboration of the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite on Thursday announced its latest findings, reporting for the first time the observation of the charge-dependent limit of cosmic ray acceleration, and providing key evidence for the existence of a "super particle accelerator" near the Earth. The study has been published online in the academic journal Nature.

Science Island, located on the outskirts of Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, is an epitome of innovation and the opening up of China's science and technology in pursuit of future clean energy, as well as solutions to climate change and health problems, through global cooperation. On the "island," a group of young and devoted scientists are taking up the baton and carrying forward decades of scientific endeavor.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Tuesday revealed an artificial intelligence (AI) model system supporting scientific research, empowering multiple scientific domains including mathematics, physics and biology. This marks a transition in AI-driven scientific research from fragmented and isolated exploration toward collaborative, efficient and platform-based innovation.

Chinese research institutions have recently completed a demonstration of space metal 3D printing technology in orbit, with potential applications in space manufacturing and maintenance. The Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of CAS, successfully carried out the demonstration in the previously launched Qingzhou Cargo Spacecraft Test Vehicle.

An Amorphophallus gigas, commonly known as a giant voodoo lily, cultivated at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently entered its blooming period, marking the first recorded instance of this species flowering in China.

Shanghai scientists have identified a "brake" gene that could potentially halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease, following the creation of the world's first functional map of regulatory "switches" in astrocytes — cells that protect and support brain neurons — using an innovative technology.

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have successfully extracted a new two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial directly from ordinary plant straw, proving that a "hidden treasure" has been sitting in plain sight in fields across the country.

A joint research team has recently achieved a breakthrough in the field of optical metamaterials, creating new avenues for multi-scale optical metamaterial research and micro-nano photonics applications. The team, jointly led by the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National University of Singapore, has proposed a new paradigm for the scalable fabrication of optical metamaterials, achieving synergistic optimization of optical properties and structural design.

Southwestern China's Kunming city is home to rare orchid species. We follow our reporter Tao Yuan to see how scientists are protecting these prized flowers from extinction. They are some of the most prized flowers in the world. Rare colors. Exquisite forms. At the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, hundreds of orchids are now on display.

A Chinese-led international team has released the largest-ever cosmological simulation, named "HyperMillennium," offering scientists a powerful digital tool to explore cosmic evolution. This simulation covers a vast cube with a side size of 12 billion light-years and uses 4.2 trillion virtual dark matter particles. By applying a technique called N-body numerical simulation, the team accurately recreated how large-scale structures in the universe evolved over 10 billion years.

More than 60 kilometers from the urban area of Beijing, surrounded by mountains beside the Yanqi Lake, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) operates quietly in the Huairou Science City. Zhou Rui, a professor at the Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and head of the nuclear magnetic resonance measurement station at SECUF, focuses on the changing measurement values on his computer screen, checking instruments and communicating with colleagues from time to time.

A new study by Chinese scientists has revealed how cryospheric degradation affects carbon and nitrogen cycles on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, providing key data for biogeochemical models of high-altitude cryospheric regions. The study, spearheaded by the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, traces the characteristics and transport mechanisms of dissolved organic matter in the source area of the Yellow River, China's second-longest waterway, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Chinese researchers have developed a new type of copper foil that overcomes a long-standing trade-off among strength, electrical conductivity and thermal stability, offering a promising material for advanced electronics and next-generation energy storage systems.

The Max Planck-Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Synthetic Biochemistry was officially inaugurated in South China's Shenzhen on Saturday, marking the first collaborative research initiative between the Max Planck Society (MPG) from Germany and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) dedicated specifically to the field of synthetic biology.

Facing the acceleration of glacier flow within the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have figured out that such a phenomenon was caused by the upper-ocean warming.

Workers work at the construction site of the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, April 15, 2026. Dubbed the "artificial sun," the BEST facility represents one of China's major ventures into controlled nuclear fusion and is poised to attempt the world's first fusion energy power generation demonstration.