A new study has revealed vegetation changes in south China over the past 20,000 years, which can help scientists better understand the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation. The study found that climate has gradually warmed up in south China since the "Last Glacial Maximum," 20,000 years ago.

A research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has announced a constellation program, planning to launch 72 small satellites for the Internet of Things in the next three years. The program will be implemented by Beijing-based private satellite company "Commsat," which was funded by the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics under the CAS.

In 2018, the village teamed up with the local sandstorm control branch of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences to develop solutions for controlling sandstorms and introduce new varieties of seedlings more resistant to the harsh conditions.

Chinese researchers have set up a large-scale buoy system to monitor the lake environment in Namtso, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, according to its developer Tuesday. Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are mostly distributed in sparsely populated areas with high altitudes and harsh climates, making it hard to obtain long-term observation data.

Chinese researchers have developed a comprehensive software for multi-omic and evolutionary analyses, providing a free cloud platform for researchers in the field of biological study. The software and the cloud platform are free online.

The Tibet ASgamma experiment, a China-Japan joint research project, has discovered the highest energy cosmic gamma rays ever observed from an astrophysical source – in this case, the "Crab Nebula". The experiment detected gamma rays ranging from > 100 Teraelectron volts (TeV)(see Fig.1) to about 450 TeV. Previously, the highest energy ever observed for a gamma-ray photon was 75 TeV, by the HEGRA Cherenkov telescope.

Chinese researchers have identified several potential ecological corridors of Marco Polo sheep, a subspecies of argali sheep, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Led by Yang Weikang, a researcher with the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team has identified potential ecological corridors for the sheep in Taxkorgan wildlife nature reserve after three years of field observation and data analysis.

The research team with the Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed fluorescent nanoprobes with the proportional mixing of blue carbon dots and red carbon dots. As the amount of lead ions increases, the coloring changes from blue to red with UV light in five minutes.

A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the new type of hydrophobic nanosponge with amino silicon oil and silane coupling agent, which can effectively absorb diesel in water and soil under various conditions.

Over the past three months, a group of young scientists from the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been trying to make physics more understandable, interesting and fun by livestreaming experiments and interacting with viewers on a video-sharing platform.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has unveiled a cloud technology-based data platform tailored to the commercial space industry. The Space Cloud Cubic platform launched Wednesday in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, is developed to provide comprehensive solutions to various parties in the commercial space industry, the CAS said.

China's High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), the country' s first high-energy synchrotron radiation light source and soon one of the world' s brightest fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facilities, began construction in Beijing' s Huairou District on June 29, 2019.

Visitors can see giant lotus and sparkling firefly in the botanic garden in Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture in Yunnan from July 1, after a two-month-long event opens at the garden. The giant lotus is also called "the lotus of the Queen", whose leaf is the biggest among aquatic plants, with the diameter reaching 3 meters.

Dark-colored biological dust called cryoconite found on the surface of glaciers during the intensive melting season creates a large accumulation of atmospheric mercury deposition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, researchers say.

Chinese scientists have developed a hydrophobic nanosponge that can efficiently remove diesel fuel from contaminated water and soil. Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the Chinese Academy of Sciences fabricated an environmentally-friendly adsorbent for diesel fuel.

The Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD), one of China's top science think tanks, has published a new theory and methodology on Thursday to help think tanks conduct scientific, fact-based research and create innovative and constructive solutions.

Chinese researchers have discovered a gene which plays an important role in cadmium accumulation in rice, providing a reference for the cultivation of low-cadmium rice varieties. Cadmium, a kind of toxic heavy metal, can be easily absorbed and enriched in rice, and then enters the human body through the food chain, thus posing a serious threat to human health.

Chinese researchers have improved a diagnostics system for nuclear fusion devices, paving the way for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power in the future. At the temperatures required for fusion reactions, the matter can only exist in the plasma state, free negative electrons and positive nuclei.