Chinese scientists have uncovered a crucial mechanism explaining how Earth may have stored vast quantities of water in its infancy, shedding new light on the planet's dramatic evolution from a fiery ball of magma to the life-nurturing world of today.

Chinese scientists have proposed new insights into how alpine ecosystem carbon cycling may respond to long-term climate change via a long-term study of plant phenological events in alpine grasslands, according to the Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China has officially launched its northernmost satellite data receiving station, located in the extreme cold of Heilongjiang Province. The station's strategic high-latitude location will enhance the country's Earth observation capabilities by increasing the data reception time from polar-orbiting satellites.

Officials and experts from China and Africa on Sunday called for stronger scientific and technological cooperation to address desertification and land degradation, urging closer coordination to advance Africa's Great Green Wall initiative. The calls were made at the fourth Taklamakan Desert International Forum, held in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, where participants stressed that desertification remains a shared global challenge requiring joint action and the sharing of experience.

Scholars and industry insiders gathered in Beijing on Saturday to discuss the importance of establishing a responsible, scientific and credible think tank research system in the new era, highlighting the double-edged sword role of artificial intelligence in this context.

China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) achieved a new milestone in their space partnership on December 10, 2025, as Arab Satellite 813 was successfully launched into orbit aboard China's Lijian-1 Y11 rocket. The launch marks a historic step in space cooperation between the two countries. Lijian-1's developer, CAS Space – a commercial spaceflight company established by the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – has now served a total of 32 satellite customers, including 26 domestic and six international clients.

In order to study the construction and renovation history of this complex, a team of Chinese researchers has successfully pinpointed the growth years of three ancient timbers in the Forbidden City and traced their geographical origins via oxygen isotope analysis. Xu Chenxi, a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has devoted himself to the study of paleoclimate change, specifically using stable isotopes in tree rings to investigate variations of the Asian monsoon over the past millennium.

China's northernmost satellite data receiving station officially commenced operations on Friday, according to the station's developer, the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A new study by Chinese scientists has advanced understanding of the mechanism and impact of permafrost collapse, particularly thaw slumps, on the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists have identified a key mechanism that governs the function of plant stem cells — cells that enable plants to continuously generate new leaves, stems and flowers — a finding that could enable the improvement of crop yields, quality and resilience. The researchers found that the mechanical properties of the plant cell wall play a pivotal role in stem cell regulation.

Liang Wenfeng, founder of the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, and "Deep diver" Chinese geoscientist Du Mengran have been selected for the journal Nature's annual "Nature's 10" list, which highlights ten people at the heart of some of the biggest science stories of 2025. The pair are recognized respectively for driving the development of powerful large-scale AI models and for pioneering deep-sea exploration that revealed some of the deepest animal ecosystems ever observed on Earth.

The 3rd Youth Innovation Forum on Digital Earth, also known as the Joint ISPRS-ISDE Conference on Geo-Digitalization for Sustainable Development Goals, was held in Nairobi, Kenya, marking a historic milestone as the forum convened on the African continent for the first time.

Recently, researchers from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully developed China's first adaptive hydrogel biomimetic suction disc. This breakthrough addresses key technological challenges in underwater grasping and fine manipulation, providing crucial technical support for related industrial upgrades.

A groundbreaking experiment recreates Einstein's 1927 thought challenge, confirming fundamental quantum principle. In a landmark study that brings a definitive close to one of the most famous debates in modern physics, a team of Chinese scientists has experimentally validated Niels Bohr's core quantum principle, demonstrating that a particle's path and its wave-like behavior are fundamentally mutually exclusive – a notion Albert Einstein famously resisted.

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.