The 3,500-year-old mummies unearthed two decades ago in Xinjiang region captured global attention this week after scientists sequenced DNA from three cheese samples found at their burial site, revealing the secrets of the world's oldest known fermented dairy products.

In a study published on Wednesday, researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) found that a type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements.

​The construction of the Core Array of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) started Wednesday, highlighting China's growing potential in global radio astronomy research. As a proposed extension of FAST, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, the Core Array integrates 24 secondary 40-meter antennas implanted within 5 kilometers of the FAST site.

Day and night, huge volumes of data pours into China's satellite ground stations, which serve as space-ground information ports. China's remote sensing satellite ground stations play an important role in advancing scientific research and supporting industrial applications.

According to the "Big Earth Data in Support of the Sustainable Development Goals Report (2024)", recently released on the UN website, China has achieved 126 indicators ahead of schedule for the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. These indicators account for more than half of the 227 indicators evaluated in the report.

Chinese scientists used an independently developed resistive magnet on Sunday to produce a steady magnetic field of 42.02 tesla, equivalent to over 800,000 times the Earth's magnetic field, breaking a world record set by the United States in this field in 2017.

CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket maker owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted the fourth flight of its Kinetica 1 rocket model, formerly known as ZK 1A, on Wednesday morning. The Kinetica 1-Y4 rocket lifted off at 7:33 am from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert and then placed five satellites into their preset orbit.

Recently, the Global Times reporter Shan Jie interviewed Guo Huadong, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Director-General of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS), to discuss the role of big Earth data in helping Small Island Developing States (SIDS) achieve sustainable development and improve their disaster response capabilities.

An increasing number of African scholars have pursued their botanical research with the backing of Chinese institutions in recent years. The Sino-Africa Joint Research Center serves as a melting pot of talent, with over 300 students from 14 African countries collaborating on botanical, animal science and microbiological research initiatives.

​China on Thursday launched two new satellites for the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The world's first large-scale remote sensing basic model with more than 10 billion parameters, "RingMo 3.0," was launched at the first Aerospace Information Technology Conference on Saturday, marking it as an integrated space-air remote sensing model.

A geographic sciences multi-modal Large Language Model (LLM), the first of its kind in the world, was unveiled in Beijing on Thursday. It could support the integration of geography and artificial intelligence and help accelerate geographical discoveries.