A team of Chinese and international scientists has uncovered the precise mechanism behind one of nature's most vital alliances: the partnership between legume plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. This finding has the potential to transform future agricultural practices. The discovery, published in the latest issue of Science, explains how plants and bacteria identify the perfect partner, paving the way for engineered crops that may one day need far less chemical fertilizer.
China has made progress in scientific data simulation for the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), also known as the Xuntian Space Telescope, marking a crucial step in preparing for the country's flagship space astronomy facility. A collaborative Chinese research team built an end-to-end observation simulation suite for both the telescope's main optical system and various observation terminals.
By studying the detection data of China's first Mars rover, Zhurong, Chinese geologists have found that the Martian surface had still exhibited significant aqueous activity approximately 750 million years ago. This discovery shows that water existed on Mars several hundred million years longer than previously thought.
A team of Chinese scientists has demonstrated that simple, non-invasive sound therapy can produce significant and remarkably long-lasting biological changes in aged monkeys, offering new hope for a potential physical treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The study, published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was led by researchers from the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
China's space station made steady progress in the development of space science, application experiments and technology tests in 2025, according to China's Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A novel experiment on the fundamental science of lithium-ion batteries has been carried out aboard China's Tiangong space station, according to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Wednesday. This experiment, conducted by the three astronauts comprising the Shenzhou-21 crew, aimed to uncover the mechanisms behind battery performance by leveraging the unique conditions of space.
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