Some of the first humans to arrive in the Americas came from China during two distinct migrations -- the first during the last ice age and the second shortly after, according to a new genetics study published Tuesday. A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas.

Lenghu, a tiny town with about 500 permanent residents at an average altitude of 2,800 meters, will soon draw worldwide stargazers with a state-of-the-art observatory site located in northwest China's Qinghai Province. China's top astronomers have chosen the area as an ideal observatory site, thanks to its clear night skies, stable atmospheric conditions and dry climate comparable to several globally-renowned observatories.

China launched a new cargo mission on Wednesday night to transport supplies to its orbiting Tiangong space station. The Tianzhou-6 mission is the first after China's crewed space station program entered the stage of application and development. The cargo craft is also tasked with sending multiple scientific experiment payloads to the space lab.

China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), a high-altitude cosmic ray observatory, passed national acceptance procedures on Wednesday, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). LHAASO, covering an area of 1.36 square kilometers located 4,410 meters above sea level in Daocheng County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, is one of the country's key national science and technology facilities.

China's new cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-6 is packed with experiment payloads weighing over 700 kg, including samples and devices for stem cell research. The country will perform human stem cell experiments aboard the Tiangong space station for the first time, to study the impacts of a microgravity environment on human reproduction, according to the scientists.

Chinese scientists have an ambitious plan — they want to build permanent structures on the moon using lunar materials, and a recent finding has shown that this idea is feasible. According to a new study published in National Science Review, a Chinese science journal, the nation's scientists have identified natural glass fibers for the first time in lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e 5 robotic mission.

Chinese researchers have conducted a 10-day aerial integrated observation experiment to accurately monitor the quality and condition of black land in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Chinese researchers have developed a nanoparticle that can accurately detect and treat cancer, reducing the side effects of excessive drug use.

A ceremony to name an asteroid after WANG Yinglai, the founding director of the Institute of Biochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1958, which later became the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science of the CAS, was held in Shanghai on Saturday.

Chinese scientists have discovered multiple types of glass material in lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-5 mission, including the natural fiberglass which has been found for the first time and could provide important support for future lunar base construction, according to the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists and their international counterparts have recently discovered that China's lakes have become bluer and greener in recent decades because of reasons that include higher temperatures and rainfall.

Chinese scientists found a new vapor-deposited digenite mineral in lunar soil retrieved by the Chang'e-5 mission, a rare copper-bearing mineral, according to the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.