Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a marine fungus species that can efficiently degrade polyethylene and other plastics, with some plastics degraded into pieces in merely two weeks.

Botanists in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have published a book on vascular plants in Tianshan Mountains. The book, Vascular Plant Checklist of Tianshan, introduces 6,784 wild vascular plants belonging to 924 genera and 117 families in the Tianshan Mountains, according to the Botanical Society of Xinjiang.

A Chinese astronomer has helped uncover the exuberant "teenage years" of the Milky Way when it merged with a satellite galaxy, consumed plenty of hydrogen gas and formed many stars, according to a study published in the journal Nature on Thursday.

Peter Mortimer, the South African mycologist has been researching Yunnan's fungi for more than 10 years at the Kunming Institute of Botany. Some of that fungi could help solve the earth's plastic and rubber waste problem, Mortimer says.

Chinese researchers have reconstructed the temperature and hydrological changes in the monsoonal north China plain over the past 30,000 years. The study was carried out by researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

An asteroid has been named after Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), a comprehensive research university, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on Monday. A ceremony took place online and offline on Monday to announce the naming of Asteroid Huazhongkejida (Chinese pinyin of HUST), approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Chinese chemists from Tianjin University and the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a minuscule structure capable of improving the chemical reaction in carbon capture that may help mitigate global warming.

Chinese researchers have found that pheromones may play a role in reproductive synchrony among migratory locusts. The study will be helpful in the understanding of swarming behavior among locusts.

A flower exhibition featuring 600,000 tulips and 200,000 others kicked off on Tuesday at the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The exhibition and festival run through the first 10 days of April.

In a paper published in Science, researchers analyzed the polarization of active FRBs and offered the first systematic description of the environments in which they reside. The results indicate that the bursts likely originate in young or complex environments such as supernova remnants.

China plans to conduct a number of frontier scientific experiments on its Tiangong space station, with the two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, scheduled to be launched this year, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A new study conducted by a group of international scientists from China and the UK showed that tropical terrestrial methane (CH₄) emissions explain more than 80 percent of the observed changes in the global atmospheric methane growth rate from 2010 to 2019. The team also for the first time found that sea surface temperature variations could be used to help forecast variations in global atmospheric methane.