A team of Chinese scientists have taken inspiration from rock-climbing fish and developed an underwater robot with impressive adhesive capabilities. This robot can cling onto surfaces with a force equivalent to 1,000 times its own weight. The biomimetic robot also achieved a remarkable glide at a speed of 7.83 times its body length per second.

Chinese scientists recently found a shark tooth fossil of the Late Triassic period dating from 220 million years ago in a scientific expedition of Mount Cho Oyu, the world's sixth-highest peak, on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, filling in missing information about marine ecosystems during this period. The scientific expedition, launched in late September this year, aims to better understand the ecology of the high-altitude region and help achieve its sustainable development. More than 120 scientists work in teams to conduct research on water, ecology and human activities around the mountain.

Chinese scientists have newly proposed a strategy for brain-inspired neural circuit evolution, shedding light on developing spiking neural networks with better biological plausibility and efficiency, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This study proposes an idea for the research of general brain-inspired cognitive intelligence, said Zeng Yi, a researcher with the Institute of Automation under the CAS and leader of the study team.

A Chinese expedition team has been conducting research around Mount Cho Oyu since the end of September and reached its summit on Oct. 1, obtaining abundant scientific results that are thought to be conducive to the protection of the "roof of the world." Located on the China-Nepal border, Mt. Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world, with an altitude of 8,201 meters. "The mountain's Gyalpolha Glacier is one of the glaciers in the Himalayas with the greatest retreat," said Yao Tandong, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Up along the path from an altitude of 4,950 meters on Mount Cho Oyu, the world's sixth-highest mountain, some fragments of rocks with metal luster shined by the roadside. "The rock samples here contain rare metal elements and the samples from different altitudes can help us understand the distribution layers of rare metals here," said Liu Xiaochi, an associate researcher from Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Snow and ice samples were collected on Mount Cho Oyu, the world's sixth-highest peak, for the first time, in a bid to unveil more about the environmental changes in this exceptionally high-altitude region, the Chinese expedition team said Monday. The day before, an 18-member expedition team successfully reached the summit of Mount Cho Oyu, also known as Mt. Qowowuyag, which soars to 8,201 meters above sea level, to carry out scientific research. It was the first time that Chinese scientists had scaled a peak exceeding 8,000 meters in altitude apart from Mt. Qomolangma, the world's highest summit.

A Chinese expedition team comprising 18 members reached the summit of Mount Cho Oyu, also known as Mt. Qowowuyag, at 9:15 a.m. on Sunday to carry out scientific research on the world's sixth-highest peak. This is the first time Chinese scientists have scaled a peak exceeding 8,000 meters in altitude apart from Mt. Qomolangma, the world's highest summit. Located on the China-Nepal border, Mt. Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world with an altitude of 8,201 meters.

Chinese researchers recently produced a high resolution wetland map of East Asia, shedding new light on wetland conservation and sustainable development. The study has been published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. In this study, the researchers developed a novel two-stage classification for continental-scale wetland mapping and generated the first and up-to-date 10-meter-resolution wetland map of East Asia.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), or the "China Sky Eye," Chinese scientists have discovered 76 new faint and occasionally emitting pulsars, including a group of the faintest pulsars known today. These pulsars are very special in that they only occasionally radiate a pulse in many rotation periods, so that they are known as rotating radio transient sources (RRATs), said the study, which was published on Monday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics Research.

The tusk shell, a tubular-shelled mollusk found in oceans worldwide, has long baffled scientists with its odd shape and uncertain evolutionary history. But a new genomic study published in PNAS has finally peeled back the layers on these enigmatic creatures. The tusk shells exhibit a mosaic of morphological and developmental features resembling those of other mollusk lineages, such as tentacles resembling the arms of nautilus, a unique manner of shell development similar to that of clams, and a partially degenerated head that seemingly represents an intermediate state between clams and snails. These features have vexed scientists for decades, as they suggest different ideas about the evolutionary history of tusk shells.

Chinese scientists have found a solution to inhibit the occurrence of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) triggered by cancer immunotherapy, according to a recent paper published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. The CRS, also known as cytokine storm, is an overreaction of the immune system. It happens as an adverse effect of certain types of immunotherapy, such as CAR T-cell therapy, which can efficiently treat malignant tumors while stimulating immune cells to release plenty of inflammatory cytokines, thus leading to CRS.

The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope, a solar telescope array in southwest China, passed key testing on Wednesday, marking the official completion of the world's largest synthesis aperture radio telescope, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).