Chinese scientists have successfully engineered a novel bacteria strain capable of simultaneously degrading five types of organic pollutants in high-salinity industrial wastewater, and their findings have been published in Nature online.

Sun Yuanxia in north China's Tianjin Municipality has dedicated over two decades to "sweet research." Sun, a researcher at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led her team in developing a special platform for rare sugar biosynthesis. This achievement in 2023 has revolutionized traditional concepts of sugar manufacturing.

Amid the forested hills and mirror-like lakes of Beijing's Huairou district, a scientific revolution is unfolding at ultrafast timescales. Within the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility — a crown jewel of China's Big Science Infrastructure — experimental setups pulse with red and green lasers, their beams threading through vacuum chambers with micron-level precision.

Chinese scientists have achieved satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space in daytime for the first time in the world, despite the strong daylight interference, said the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Tuesday.

The Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has unveiled an AI-driven research platform, ScienceOne, marking a significant step toward transforming traditional research methods through AI automation.

By studying 140-million-year-old oyster fossils, a joint team of Chinese and international scientists has uncovered clues about Earth's climate during the Early Cretaceous period, challenging the singular narrative of steady warming trend and offering new insights into future global climate predictions. Using oyster shell fossils records and combined with high-resolution climate simulations, the study has, for the first time, reconstructed the seasonal fluctuations in sea surface temperatures during the greenhouse periods of 140 million years ago.

The first batch of fruit flies bred on the Chinese space station are set to return to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft, as announced by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. These specimens are expected to provide invaluable data for fundamental research into the mechanisms of biological magnetic sensing and gravity perception.

A new study has warned that global warming will likely fuel more frequent snow droughts in the future. The study, led by researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A group of Chinese researchers have designed a Generalized Data Completion Model (GDCM) applicable to multi-source remote sensing data in aiming to solve the missing measurement caused by satellite orbit coverage gaps and cloud cover, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

The latest samples from 25 scientific experiments conducted aboard China's Tiangong space station, totaling approximately 37.25 kilograms, were brought back to Earth on Wednesday. Marking the eighth batch of experimental materials from the orbiting laboratory, the samples were brought back to Earth aboard the Shenzhou-19 return capsule. According to a news release from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Thursday, the returned materials originated from experiments in space life sciences, materials science and new space technologies.

Volcanic eruptions have the capacity to threaten the safety of satellites, although they are hundreds of kilometers higher up from the Earth's ground, recent research reveals. The massive 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano was one of the most powerful explosions ever recorded. It blasted ash and gas high into the sky, reaching heights over 50 kilometers, above most clouds and weather, and sent waves rippling through the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, or USTC, recently reported how the waves developed, on Eos, science news magazine of American Geophysical Union.

A joint study has uncovered how beneficial microbes can improve soil health and boost crop yields, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A Chinese research team has independently developed a robot capable of implanting ultra-fine flexible microelectrodes into animal brains. The robot, developed by researchers from the Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has received preliminary acceptance for Shenzhen's major science and technology infrastructure project on brain analysis and simulation.

China on Wednesday successfully conducted its first satellite laser ranging experiment at lunar-distance scales, marking a major technological breakthrough in deep-space exploration. The breakthrough was announced on Friday by the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), during a mission to explore the Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO), an orbit known as a natural space harbor.

In the second week of April, Lusaka became a hub of agricultural innovation as technicians from Southern African countries gathered for a unique three-day training session. Unlike typical workshops, this one provided a customized experience. Participants brought data from their own countries and practiced on the satellite remote sensing agricultural monitoring platform developed by Chinese scientists, tailoring their learning to fit local needs. This exemplified China's increasing collaboration with Global South countries in space technology -- not merely through memorandums or broad agreements, but by translating cutting-edge innovation into tangible, real-world applications.

Over the past decade, China has installed more solar panels and wind turbines than any other country. The country is now investing in experimental technologies to accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon future. At the experimental site in the northern suburbs of Beijing, researchers from the Institute of Electrical Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are working to make greenhouse gases greener.

A mega science plan was launched Thursday in Beijing's Huairou Science City, aimed at advancing research in life sciences and major diseases by using artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies. Dubbed "Digital Life", the plan was initiated by the National Biomedical Imaging Center (NBIC) at Peking University on the basis of the Multimode Trans-Scale Biomedical Imaging Facility, one of China's key scientific infrastructure projects.

An astronomical satellite jointly developed by China and France has detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) dating back 13 billion years, likely originating from the collapse of an early star forming a black hole or a neutron star. The discovery made by the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) was announced at a ceremony for China's Space Day in Shanghai on Thursday.