This year's newly elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said at the certificate awarding ceremony on Friday that they would leverage their research to drive economic development and address the pressing needs of the country. In November, the CAS announced the election of 73 new members from China, bringing the total CAS number to 908.

A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on their self-developed next-generation Mars general-circulation model named GoMars. According to a research article published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, the researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have managed to reveal the behavior of Martian dust and have laid the cornerstone for dependable Martian weather forecasts and climate projections by rigorously evaluating the simulation performance of GoMars.

A research team led by the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently mapped a comprehensive landscape of natural aging in rhesus monkeys, covering all major organ systems across multiple molecular dimensions, the China Science Daily reported on Thursday.

China on Wednesday released reports on global research hotspots and emerging frontiers in 2025 and selected 128 research frontiers that have performed actively or developed rapidly during this year. The two reports, jointly issued by the Institutes of Science and Development, the National Science Library, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the global analytics firm Clarivate, seek to analyze major frontier scientific breakthroughs that may influence the world's future development, and support China's national strategy for sci-tech innovation.

Amid global climate change, Chinese scientists have recently made significant progress in understanding the heat tolerance mechanisms in rice, identifying its heat-tolerant genes, and developing new varieties suited to future climates. Their study involved field trials simulating high-temperature conditions, where the scientists identified two key regulatory factors in rice that sense and respond to heat.

Researchers have produced the first high-resolution maps detailing forest diversity patterns across China. The study was led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with domestic and international institutions, and its results have been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

As winter blankets Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, the vibrant landscape belies the scientific milestone it houses: a 30-square-meter "vault of life" -- the seed bank of the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center for Chenshan Botanical Garden. The Center recently announced a significant achievement: it now holds over 100 million viable seeds, representing 1,950 wild plant species from 159 families and 785 genera, including 323 species endemic to China and 68 rare and endangered species.

​In the course of almost two years after China's astronomical satellite named Einstein Probe (EP) was launched, it has managed to capture many extraordinary transient events in the universe that flicker like fireworks, thereby helping expand human understanding of extreme physical phenomena in the cosmos.

Scientists have harnessed ancient DNA to reconstruct the intricate social structure of one of China's earliest cities, revealing a genetically diverse society anchored in the authority of patrilineal clans. The research published on Thursday in Nature presents the first direct genetic evidence regarding the origins of the Shimao population -- the builders of Shimao, a massive Neolithic walled settlement in northern China that thrived around 4,300 years ago and was abandoned about 500 years later.

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as Asia's "water tower", holds an estimated 10 trillion cubic meters of surface water storage, a resource scientists say is increasingly vital to water security for more than two billion people across the continent. The new findings — released on Nov 19 in Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous region — highlight both the plateau's rising hydrological importance and the growing environmental risks it faces.

A series of scientific satellites launched by China have achieved major discoveries in fields such as cosmic transient objects, cosmic-ray propagation and solar eruptions, renewing humanity's understanding of the universe. Since the launch of a CAS space science program in 2011, eight scientific satellites have been sent into space.

China on Monday launched an international science program focused on fusion burning plasma research in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, opening several major fusion research platforms to global scientists for joint scientific advancements. This international program, initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plasma Physics, will provide global access to the country's multiple major fusion research platforms, including the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) facility in Hefei.

Chinese scientists have unraveled the mystery behind the unusually cohesive lunar soil retrieved by China's Chang'e-6 mission from the far side of the moon. The soil's sticky and clumpy characteristics -- which distinguished it from samples collected on the near side of the moon, had captivated researchers since the mission's successful completion in 2024. This intriguing observation prompted a comprehensive investigation by a research team led by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Their findings have been published in the latest issue of Nature Astronomy.

The second Qinghai-Tibet scientific expedition has become a driving force behind ecological protection legislation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, academicians said at a news conference in Lhasa, capital of the Xizang autonomous region, on Wednesday. The top 10 application achievements of the expedition were released at the event, covering ecological conservation, disaster prevention, resource exploration, carbon accounting, traffic safety and development in border areas.

The world's largest transparent spherical neutrino detector in south China's Guangdong Province reported its first achievement on Wednesday, marking a major step of its decade-long construction. Using 59 days of effective data after the start of operation on Aug. 26 this year, JUNO has already measured two of the solar neutrino oscillation parameters with a factor of 1.5 to 1.8 better precision than previous experiments.

Chinese scientists have discovered a new species of the Genus Mustela in a national nature reserve located in southwest China's Sichuan Province, and have named it Mustela mopbie, according to the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Relevant findings were published in the international, peer-reviewed journal, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, this month.

A new study by Chinese scientists has shed light on the coupling effects of snow cover and ground thermal on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A new study by Chinese researchers and their German counterparts has shed light on the link between groundwater balance and plant water-use efficiency in desert ecosystems, offering valuable insights for ecological restoration and combating desertification.