Chinese scientists quantified global carbon emissions of biomass combustion and built a daily emission inventory of high-resolution biomass combustion carbon emissions utilizing fire spot monitoring data of the Fengyun 3D polar-orbiting meteorological satellite. The relevant article was recently published in the journal of Earth System Science Data.

Chinese scientists have captured the spectacular moment when the explosion shock wave of supernova (SN) 2024ggi broke through the surrounding dense circumstellar material (CSM), offering crucial insights into unraveling the mysteries of late-stage stellar evolution and death. The related findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Chinese scientists from the Qingdao Energy Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed homogenized cathode materials, allowing all-solid-state lithium batteries to maintain 80 percent of their initial capacity after 5,000 cycles of usage. The breakthrough was published recently in Nature Energy titled "A cathode homogenization strategy for enabling long-cycle-life all-solid-state lithium batteries."

Scientists from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a new species of impatiens, Impatiens lhunzeensis, in Shannan City, in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

Chinese scientists have discovered the oldest-known microblade technology site on the south bank of the Serling Tso Lake in the Xizang autonomous region, adding to the historical timeline of early human activity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The research was led by a team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the region's institute of cultural relics protection, and the cultural bureau of Nagchu city.

A research team from the South China Botanical Garden under the CAS has established a global database, which includes 987 sets of observation data from 274 papers published between 1972 and 2021, to study the proportions of inorganic phosphorus fertilizer in terms of plant uptake, soil storage, and leaching loss.

Chinese scientists are conducting monitoring, evaluation and research on biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration of the alpine wetlands in southwest China, harnessing the significant role of the wetlands in carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation.

​Despite the global warming and wetting climate, the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau plays an important role as a carbon sink, according to recent studies conducted by the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists have identified a gamma-ray spectral line with energy levels peaking at 37 million electron volts, the highest-energy gamma-ray spectral line ever observed from cosmic celestial bodies. The discovery will significantly advance the understanding of gamma-ray bursts.

Chinese researchers have developed a high-performance plastic-based thermoelectric material that holds great promise for applications in areas such as wearable electronics. This innovative material, featuring lightness and softness, can employ temperature differences to generate electricity.

A new study has provided evidence showing that human activities have made global rainfall more volatile over the past century. The study reveals a systematic increase in rainfall variability since the 1900s, ranging from global to regional scales and from daily to intraseasonal timescales.

A team of Chinese scientists has identified in a lunar sample retrieved by Chang'e-5 a kind of mineral enriched with water in its molecular structure. This finding has unveiled a potential form in which water molecules may exist on the lunar surface: hydrated salts. Unlike volatile water ice, these hydrates are very stable in high-latitude regions of the moon, even in sunlit areas.