The hinterland of southwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was a warm and humid lowland nourished by warm air from the Indian Ocean 26 million years ago, according to a recently published study in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin. The joint research of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found the diversified fossils of animals and plants in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region and recognized the transitions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau's ecosystem in the early Miocene, about 23 million years ago.

A retractable intelligent float observation system to monitor ocean conditions has started its trail run in the waters off Zhoushan, the coastal city of east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Cotton can create the highest water productivity among the crops including rice, wheat and corn in the Aral Sea basin of Central Asia, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). A research team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the CAS conducted research on water and land resource development and utility efficiency along the Aral Sea basin from 2000 to 2014.

Using the New Vacuum Solar Telescope in China, Shuhong Yang et al. at NAOC discovered a new phenomenon on the Sun, i.e., chromospheric cannonballs. These cannonballs appear as dark or bright structures flying along curved trajectories. They are considered to be chromospheric material blobs launched due to the magnetic reconnection between emerging magnetic flux and the pre-existing loops.

The opening ceremony of the China-Thailand Joint Research Institute of Natural Medicine was held on Thursday night to promote cooperation on natural medicine research, training between the two countries. The research institute was jointly set up by four organizations from both countries, namely Chulabhorn Royal Academy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SHUTCM), Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and CAS Bangkok Innovation Cooperation Center.

Shanghai scientists have made new discoveries about the development of cells in early embryos, paving the way for more efficient methods to obtain stem cells for certain human organs. This may in turn promote the development of stem cell-related regenerative medicine.

Chinese researchers have discovered a new but highly endangered species of snow lotus in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwestern province of Sichuan. The snow lotus, named Saussurea balangshanensis, was spotted in the alpine zone at an altitude of about 4,400 to 4,700 meters in the reserve.

Shanghai scientists have made new discoveries regarding the spatial and temporal developmental trajectory of cells in early embryos, paving ways for more efficient methods to obtain stem cells for certain human organs. This may in turn promote the development of stem cell-related regenerative medicine.

Pan Jianwei, a leading Chinese scientist who has been at the center of China's efforts to reach quantum supremacy since 2001, said the country was once "only a follower "in modern information science.

Chinese scientists have developed a chameleon-inspired soft robot with both color-changing and locomotion capabilities, offering a new perspective for future robot-environment interaction. Scientists from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences got inspiration from chameleons, which can adjust their skin color to communicate and disguise during locomotion.

Two recent studies suggest China will be able to achieve its commitments to the Paris accord on protecting the environment much earlier than expected, making a great contribution to tackling a crucial issue for human survival. One recent study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University, and Harvard University, published in the magazine Nature Sustainability, highlighted that China could achieve its commitment approximately a decade earlier than the scheduled target.

Authorities with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have spotted signs of Bengal tigers in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Kunming Institute of Zoology under the CAS said Tuesday that the infrared cameras set up by its staff in Tibet's Metok County took Bengal tiger pictures for the first time there, indicating that the environment in the county is suitable for the survival of the big cats.

Chinese researchers have demonstrated that China's livestock industry witnessed a continuous decrease in non-CO2 greenhouse gas emission intensity from 1998 to 2016. China's livestock sector is a main source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, such as wetland methane.

Researchers have devised a new method of efficient fertilization of cotton with lower nitrogen leaching in sandy soil in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Chinese researchers have discovered a rare species of orchid in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to the Kunming Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists are building new devices to watch the sun from North China, which will enhance China's capability of detecting and forecasting spatial disasters caused by solar variation. Researchers at the Ming'antu Observing Station based in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region are building three new devices to monitor the sun - a decameter wave radio heliograph, an interplanetary scintillation telescope and an ultra-wideband solar radio dynamic spectrometer.

How is the microorganism's contribution to carbon sequestration in paddy soil relevant to the climate? Chinese researchers have recently solved the puzzle. Su Yirong, a researcher with the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences has led his team to study the contribution of fungi and bacteria residues to the organic carbon accumulation in paddy soil.

Turtle embryos can determine their own sex while developing in the egg by moving around to change their temperature, Chinese-Australian research said on Friday. By monitoring clutches of turtle eggs, scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Australia's Macquarie University showed that not only does temperature determine the sex of turtle hatchlings, the embryos actually shift within the eggs to change their own outcome.