As well as hunting for signals from alien life, the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built will search for extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, which have magnetic fields like Earth, within 100 light-years from Earth. Astronomers from countries including China and France recently published their ambitious observation plan using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in the academic journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The lake ice in northeast China froze later and melted earlier with shortened frozen duration from 2003 to 2016, according to a recent study. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and American universities used satellite data to establish a time series for the extent of lake ice and extracted lake ice freezing and thawing cycle dates and durations for eight large typical lakes in northeast China.

President Xi Jinping staked out China's role as a committed player to tackle the climate crisis and build an "ecological civilization." In a review published July 10 in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, researchers discuss one of the Chinese government's efforts -- reforming the management of protected areas by streamlining agencies' responsibilities and reducing functional overlaps.

A Chinese study has found how volcanic eruptions at different latitudes affect rainfall over global monsoon regions, providing insights on designing geo-engineering experiments. In the new study, after analyzing large data sets of observations and climate model simulation, researchers found divergent hydroclimate responses following different volcanic eruptions.

An international study has shown that the Zika virus may lead to delayed childhood neurodevelopment and impairment in children's vision and hearing. Researchers tracked the development of 216 babies born to women who contracted the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the 2015-2016 Zika epidemic.

The 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany closed on the afternoon of July 5th (Beijing standard time). 1st Place Poster Award was won by PAN An, a Ph.D. candidate from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A heavy ion cancer treatment system developed by Chinese researchers will soon be put into operation in northwest China's Gansu Province, researchers said. The system will be used in a hospital in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, which is mainly dedicated to treating cancer patients with the technology of heavy-ion accelerators.

A lotus blossomed on Sunday for the first time in Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace, from a seed unearthed in 2017 that had been underground for a hundred years, The Beijing News reported.

Chinese researchers have identified a key gene with therapeutic potential in a type of lung cancer. In the new study, researchers from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under Chinese Academy of Sciences tried to decide its role in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), the most common type of lung cancer.

The surface water resource use increased 1.6 times over the past 50 years in China, according to researchers. Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reconstructed the runoff of 37 sub-basins from 12 basins around China from the 1970s to the 2000s and compared their findings to the observed data.

Chinese researchers have discovered that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau plays an essential role in enhancing the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) circulation under global warming. The latest study of Chinese scientists revealed that global warming affects the EASM through enhanced latent heating over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

A total of 27 universities across China have formed an alliance in Beijing to strengthen planetary science research. The alliance was launched at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Chinese researchers have found a remedy for jellyfish stings and have transferred the technology to a company in Shanghai to develop products, according to its developer. Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have spent more than ten years on the research of jellyfish sting.

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has recently set up a floating platform in its second largest lake of Namtso for research, according to the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

China has developed a semi-submersible aquaculture platform that harnesses ocean wave energy, according to its developer. Developed by the Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the platform integrates multiple functions including power generation, deep-sea aquaculture and tourism.

An international team of researchers have improved the gait biometric technique based on information collected by wearable sensors, increasing the accuracy of identification in wearable health devices for elderly users.

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has discovered 84 new pulsars since its trial operation began in September 2016, Jiang Peng, FAST chief engineer told Xinhua on Wednesday.

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.