The latest discovery from rock samples returned by China's Chang'e-6 lunar mission reveals that the moon's mantle contains less water on the far side compared to the near side, suggesting that the "hidden hemisphere," which always faces away from Earth, tends to be much drier. Published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, a new study by Chinese scientists found that the water content in each gram of the thick rocky layer beneath the moon's far side surface is less than 2 micrograms, the lowest record ever reported.

Chinese researchers have conducted a new study on the spatio-temporal distribution of snowmelt floods and disaster risk assessments in China's northwestern region, holding promise for disaster prevention and control of this region. The study constructed a comprehensive risk assessment framework for snowmelt floods in northwestern China.

Chinese and foreign astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in dark energy research, offering fresh insights into the physical mechanisms behind the accelerated expansion of the universe. The findings, announced by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) on Wednesday, suggest potential new physics beyond the standard cosmological model.

A revolutionary, China-led telescope project has secured two further international partnerships, accelerating humanity's quest to witness and understand the universe's most cataclysmic events. Brazil and South Africa became the latest members of the Global Open Transient Telescope Array (GOTTA) project -- a UNESCO-endorsed global initiative spearheaded by China's National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) -- during the AI-Empowered Astronomy for Open Science conference, which concluded on Wednesday in the eastern Chinese tech hub of Hangzhou.

In a breakthrough poised to redefine the future of data storage, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and collaborators have unveiled the world's first DNA "movable-type" inkjet printer. The Bi Sheng-1, a machine with a footprint of roughly 6 square meters, is a game-changing innovation that far outpaces its predecessors in speed and slashes costs dramatically.

Chinese researchers, led by Liu Gang, director of the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently achieved a breakthrough in "photocatalytic water splitting for hydrogen production." By performing "structural reshaping" and "element substitution" on a semiconductor material, they significantly enhanced the efficiency of converting water into clean hydrogen energy by using sunlight.

Chinese scientists, led by Professor Hu Hai, have revealed a hidden metabolic partnership between breast cancer cells and immune cells that drives aggressive tumor behavior and resistance to immunotherapies. The study sheds light on how tumor cells exploit the amino acid arginine to both fuel their growth and evade the immune system.

A research team at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), for the first time, has confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). This breakthrough provides novel insights into PNS development, opening new pathways for treating neurological diseases such as developmental disorders, nerve injury, abnormal pain and nerve viral infections.

A new study led by Professor Xu Cao's team at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds light on an adaptive strategy that may be pivotal in developing heat-resilient crop varieties amid escalating climate change.

A team from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has decoded the DNA of the flowerpot snake that reproduces without males, uncovering the genomic mechanisms behind their all-female reproduction. This study challenges traditional views that asexual reproduction inevitably leads to an evolutionary dead end.

A multidisciplinary team led by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding new light on the evolution of the region's early hominins. The findings are based on artifacts excavated from the Longtan site in Heqing County, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

A Chinese research team led by Yu Yinghong, a researcher at the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has pioneered a revolutionary leap in agricultural technology: a nondestructive testing system that performs "seed CT scans" to assess the vitality of individual seeds.

Chinese scientists, in collaboration with several international research institutions, have led the construction of a high-precision surface solar radiation monitoring system on a near-global scale. The joint research led by researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with scientists from Japan, France, and the UK has recently been published in the international academic journal The Innovation.

Chinese scientists have identified a significant but often overlooked consequence of microplastic pollution -- its harmful impact on photosynthesis -- a fundamental process driving Earth's primary productivity and food security. The study, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Soil Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) and Nanjing University, was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recently the plant immunity team led by Professor Liu Zhiyong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, unveiled a novel immune mechanism by which tandem kinases combat pathogen invasion: an atypical NLR protein, WTN1 (Wheat Tandem NBD 1), partners with the tandem kinase WTK3 to detect pathogen effectors and initiate immune responses.

Participants at a parallel forum of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing unveiled an initiative on Thursday, calling for global collaboration to leverage digital science and technology to accelerate sustainable development and address global challenges.

A research group led by Prof. GE Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a low-crystallinity guest acceptor D-IDT via tin-free direct C–H activation as a third component of the binary organic solar cells (OSCs), achieving a highly stable OSC with the power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 19.92 percent.

On China's space station orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth, scientists are conducting a series of astounding laboratory experiments. In the "Tiangong Aquarium" ecosystem, four grams of hornwort, a fast-growing aquatic plant that can oxygenate water, were added. Over 43 days in orbit, the zebrafish not only swam freely but also naturally spawned in the space environment, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.