China has hit another milestone in the development of its next-generation "artificial sun," with one of its key systems passing expert review and acceptance procedures on Sunday, achieving an internationally advanced development and operational capability standard.

A group of Chinese researchers have synthesized a novel bio-based polyester nanocomposite with impressive comprehensive performance and reprocessability, according to a recent research article published in the journal Nano-Micro Letters.

A new lizard species has been discovered in Chengdu, the capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the Chengdu Nature Reserve and Wildlife Protection Center. Named Scincella chengduensis sp. nov., the species belongs to the genus Scincella. The newly identified species has a slender, medium-sized body, with a snout-vent length ranging from 28.4 to 43.2 mm.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Society for Plant Biology have constructed a comprehensive integrated transcriptomic atlas for soybeans, the first spatio-temporal map of the whole-life organ development of the domestic soybean.

A group of Chinese and international scientists conducted a high-precision measurement of the very-high-energy diffuse gamma-ray emissions from the Galactic plane using the data from China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Tuesday.

Chinese scientists have reconstructed the uplift history and environmental changes of the Luolong Basin in eastern Xizang autonomous region from 54 million to 43 million years ago, helping better understand the growth process of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the interactions between deep earth dynamics and surface environments. The first author of the study, Zhao Chenyuan, is a PhD student at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists unveiled a superconducting quantum computer prototype named "Zuchongzhi 3.0" with 105 qubits on Monday (Beijing Time), marking a breakthrough in China's quantum computing advancements. The achievement also sets a new record in quantum computational advantage within superconducting systems.

An international team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory found that planetary-mass objects, or PMOs are likely formed in crowded stellar nurseries such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion constellation. This discovery not only solves a long-standing mystery but could also lead to a rewrite of cosmic classification rules.

A joint research team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) and the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered the mechanism behind bacterial cancer therapy using a genetically engineered bacterial strain in a breakthrough that offers new hope for the development of next-generation cancer therapies.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a power-free device to extract plasma from whole blood with 99 percent separation efficiency, showing broad application prospect in point-of-care testing and medical emergencies, China Science Daily reported on Friday.

China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3, as well as explore the main-belt comet 311P. An astronomer with the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) recently explained why these two targets are so intriguing and what cosmic secrets they might hold.

Researchers from the Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of loach in the Chaobai River in Shilipu Township, northeast Beijing's Miyun District and, for the first time, named this new fish using the pinyin "Beijing." The study was recently published in the Zoosystematics and Evolution.

China commenced construction on a research facility focused on the cold-seep ecosystem on Friday in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province. The research facility, designated as one of the country's major national science and technology infrastructure projects, will support cutting-edge fundamental research and high-tech development. It is set to be completed within five years, according to its builder, the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

What astonishing phenomena might materials reveal when they are subjected to conditions mimicking the extremes of the cosmos-ultra-low temperatures, magnetic fields that are hundreds of thousands of times stronger than Earth's, and pressure close to that at the planet's core? The Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF), located in Beijing's suburban Huairou District, is opening a portal for scientists to observe the bizarre phenomena of matter under such extreme environments.

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have found an ancient scorpion fossil dating back approximately 125 million years in northeast China's Liaoning Province, which is the first Mesozoic scorpion fossil discovered in the country, filling a significant gap in China's research endeavors in this field.

A new paleofish species fossil, Bothriolepis zhujiangyuanensis, has been discovered in Qujing, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Thursday. This is the first time a fish fossil has been found at the source of the Pearl River, marking the discovery of a new species of Bothriolepis in nearly 50 years in China.

Scientists from China and New Zealand are conducting the second collaborative dive expedition, supported by the Global Trench Exploration and Diving program. Launched at the beginning of this year, the three-month scientific voyage exploring the geology and ecosystem south off the coast of New Zealand's South Island, completed its first leg in New Zealand waters, and started the second leg on Friday.

China's first technical group standards for the precise ecological restoration of mangroves, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, have been released and implemented. The standards are the country's first technical guidelines in the field, addressing the lack of standardized procedures for precise mangrove restoration and evaluation.