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.

China will build high-throughput computing data centers in more than 10 cities and form a high-speed network to improve the country's data processing ability, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Thursday.

If Gao Caixia were a farmer, she might be spread a little thin. Down the hall from her office at a branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) here in Beijing, seeds from a strain of unusually soft rice and a variety of wheat with especially fat grains and resistance to a common fungus sprout in a tissue culture room. A short stroll away, wild tomato plants far hardier than domestic varieties but bearing the same sweet fruit crowd a greenhouse, along with herbicide-resistant corn and potatoes that are slow to brown when cut. In other lab rooms Gao grows new varieties of lettuce, bananas, ryegrass, and strawberries.

Chinese Consortium formed by Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has won the competitive bidding and got the order of ITER Tokamak Assembly which is officially called Contract TAC-1, as the ITER official announced the result in this June.

Chinese researchers have discovered a new species of luminous click beetles in southwest China, the first record of such insects in Asia. Around 200 species of click beetles can glow. Some species, for instance, have two small bioluminescent light organs at the back of the head and one on the abdomen.

Researchers have made new discoveries about the origin of Sumatran striped rabbits from a 6.2 million-year-old fossil, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Sumatran striped rabbits generally have a gray body with brown stripes and live now in the mountainous regions of Sumatra and Southeast Asia.

Scientists have focused on the research of the safe flat microbattery for a period of time. In order to improve safety, the researchers developed high-safety aqueous electrolytes to replace flammable organic electrolytes to produce high-safety microbatteries.

Scientists have discovered a new species of bioluminescent click beetle in the subtropical forests of southwest China. Researchers described the new species this week in the journal ZooKeys.

The city is already home to several major scientific projects, including the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility and the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak, which is key to a nuclear fusion reactor. The EAST program is key to both the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor project and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project.

Chinese scientists are working on a survey to measure the depth of a major lake in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, sources with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Tuesday. This is the first time for Chinese scientists to conduct a comprehensive measurement of the depth contours of the lake.

An international team of researchers have developed a low-cost and hand-powered water disinfection system based on triboelectric nanogenerator technology. In the new study, researchers from Tsinghua University, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States proposed the concept of TriboPump, including a water pump, a disinfection device and a disk triboelectric nanogenerator (D-TENG) as the power source.

Chinese authorities have made public a work plan to strengthen mathematical science research. The plan was jointly made by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Natural Science Foundation.

Chinese researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany have called for promoting industrial production of fungi to benefit people and they have reviewed 50 ways in which fungi can potentially be utilized as biotechnology, according to a new study paper.

Deep within the Taklimakan Desert, known by locals as the "Sea of Death", grows a unique type of shrub with reddish stems, small pink flowers and feathery, pale green foliage. Legend says the plant germinated from the blood of a young warrior who ventured into the desert to slay the drought demon.

Chinese scientists will conduct the second-phase clinical trial of a new drug to treat lupus, an autoimmune disease, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said. The new drug SM934 is a water-soluble artemisinin derivative developed by researchers with the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica under the CAS. It has been patent protected.