China's lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 212.99 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration on the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to its dormant mode for the lunar night late on Sunday (Beijing time).

APS has appointed Jian-Wei Pan, Professor of Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, as a Lead Editor for Physical Review Research. Pan joins Lead Editor Nicola Spaldin, appointed in April, on the editorial leadership team for APS’s new open access, multidisciplinary journal, which will open for submissions later this month.

Chinese and Russian institutes will further strengthen cooperation in the research of atmospheric optics and plan to build a research center in east China's Anhui Province. The Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science signed an agreement on May 30 to build a closer tie between the two institutes.

A remote operated vehicle (ROV) aboard China's research vessel KEXUE (Science), has gathered more than 500 collections of biological samples in 10 dives in two seamounts of the western Pacific Ocean by Thursday. Chinese scientists estimated that there were about 200 species in the collections, including corals, sponges, sea lilies and aplysias.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently signed a framework agreement with the southwestern province of Sichuan to deepen cooperation on scientific and technological innovation. The partnership will see the development of major research infrastructures and projects in Sichuan.

A light-weight, stretchy heat insulation material, which is inspired by polar bear hair, has been developed by Chinese scientists YU Shuhong. Applications in architecture and aerospace sectors in is promising in the future.

China's BeiDou-3 system, a global geolocation network, is expected to be completed in 2020, with a total of 35 satellites, researchers at a conference on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) said.

Scientists found that human's energy expenditure had a maximum possible level of exertion that can sustain in the long term, no matter what the activity is. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances showed that humans can only burn at 2.5 times their rate of metabolism at rest or the basal metabolic rate, in the long run.

A total of 15 captive-bred Chinese crocodile lizards were released into the wild in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region last Friday, as scientists continue to monitor how the rare creatures are adapting.

Chinese researchers have developed a new and efficient fluorescent method to simultaneously detect a variety of malignant tumor markers. The new method was developed by a research team with the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Kenya and Chinese researchers will cooperate in order to develop new tea varieties, the country's agricultural research agency said on Tuesday. A team of researchers from KALRO have also been invited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences to attend a tea conference in China later this month.

Chinese scientists have found a major lithium deposit in Southwest China's Yunnan Province, estimated to contain more than 5 million tons. A team led by research fellow Wen Hanjie from the Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences found 340,000 tons of lithium oxide in a test site in central Yunnan.

China's National Supercomputing Center in the south China city of Shenzhen on Friday launched a testbed for artificial intelligence (AI) experiments. The AI testbed, named Tai, provides the basic environment of AI chips and systems for the research, development and application tests of AI inventions.

Chinese scientists demonstrated in a study that carbon dioxide could be a better fluid used in extracting resources like shale gas within rocks than water. The study showed that the replacement technique could pave way for a more effective and eco-friendly form of fracking while storing captured atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Chinese scientists have developed a method to inhibit the generation of toxic substances from waste incineration through uncovering the formation mechanism of dioxins. The research carried out by scientists of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has led to the development of inhibition technologies which can reduce emissions of dioxins by more than half in solid waste incineration.

Chinese researchers from Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that the three major river valleys in China are significant forces involved in shaping the current genetic diversity of Han Chinese, the world's largest ethnic group.

Chinese scientists aboard research vessel KEXUE (Science) photographed several "seabed gardens" with colorful corals and sponges on Tuesday in a seamount of Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean. The coral gardens were discovered in the east ridge of the seamount in the south of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place of the earth, by a remote operated vehicle (ROV).

Discovery, a remote operated vehicle (ROV) aboard China's research vessel KEXUE (Science), captured two rare deep-water sea slugs in western Pacific Ocean in a recent dive. Sea slugs are hardly seen in deep-water (deeper than 200 meters), but Discovery gathered the two at the depth of 970 meters, according to Xu Kuidong, chief scientist aboard the vessel and a researcher of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).