China's Yutu-2, the first rover on the far side of the moon, has found materials from deep inside the moon that could help unravel the mystery of the lunar mantle composition and the formation and evolution of the moon and the earth.The first important scientific discovery of the Chang'e-4 probe since it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon was published online in the latest issue of the academic journal Nature.

Flowering plants, or angiosperms, represent more than 95% of all vascular plant life on Earth, exhibiting unmatched ecological, functional and morphological diversity. While they presently dominate nearly all terrestrial environments, the early origins of flowering plants remain an enigma.

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences,have developed a new technology to produce artemisinin, a top malaria treatment, on a large scale. Sweet wormwood was used in ancient Chinese therapy to treat various illnesses, including fevers typical of malaria. Nearly five decades ago, Chinese scientists identified its active ingredient, artemisinin.

Chinese researchers depicted the impervious surface area and green space of global cities, using multi-source remote sensing data. The impervious surface area of the monitored cities in 2010 was about 452,600 square km, accounting for about 60 percent of built-up areas of global cities.

A Chinese scientific research team while carrying out the world's first expedition to study deep diving and pelagic cetacean species in the South China Sea, spotted sperm whales and other elusive cetacean animals.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced Monday that it will hold its 15th Public Science Day from May 18 to 19. About 120 research institutes of the CAS throughout China will participate in the two-day science communication event.

An international group led by Chinese scientists identified the first known amber encasing an ancient sea animal called ammonite about 100 million years ago. The study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences described the 6.08 gram amber, which is 33 mm long, 9.5 mm wide and 29 mm high. The discovery provided a clue to ancient coastal forest ecology.

Scientists from China and other countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative will work together to enhance scientific and technological cooperation in disaster prevention and mitigation, according to a joint declaration.

According to a recent Chinese study published in the journal Nature Plants, scientists have found the mechanism of how the wounds in plants trigger regeneration. After being cut down, many plants can regenerate a new, complete plant from a shoot segment or a single leaf.

An international consortium, led by the University of Cambridge, has concluded its engineering design work of key computing elements for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, the SKA Organization announced on Thursday.

Scientists from Chinese, Belgian and British research organizations found that plants could release different chemicals to cultivate microbes around their roots to suit its own purposes. The study published on Thursday in the journal Science showed that across the plant kingdom diverse plant chemistry may provide a basis for communication that enables the sculpting of microbial communities tailored to the specific needs of the host plant.

Chinese scientists have developed a virtual nuclear power plant within a digital society, a software program to help evaluate the safety and efficiency of nuclear energy systems. The research of the system, named Virtual4DS, was published as a cover paper in the International Journal of Energy Research in April.

Biofoundries provide an integrated infrastructure to enable the rapid design, construction, and testing of genetically reprogrammed organisms for biotechnology applications and research. Many biofoundries are being built and a Global Biofoundry Alliance has recently been established to coordinate activities worldwide.

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility - which represents a major step in Shanghai's journey to become a world-leading science and technology innovation center - will see its research capability more than double within the next three years, the facility's director said on the center's 10-year anniversary on Monday.

Chinese scientists and those from the UK and Russia discovered that the oxygen content of the atmosphere and ocean was the primary controlling factor in early animal evolution during the Cambrian Explosion 524 million years ago.

Chinese scientists have developed new biomimetic polypropylene foams for oil-water separation, which can be used to prevent and control oil pollution. Scientists from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed new biomimetic polypropylene foams with a novel structure that can separate water and oil with high efficiency in complex environments.

Chinese and Germany scientists found sponge fossils dating back more than 521 million years in central China's Hunan Province. Luo Cui, a researcher with the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the three-dimensionally preserved sponge fossils found at the Niutitang Formation in Hunan lived about 521 million years ago in the early Cambrian Period.

A Chinese study found that running may have caused early winged dinosaurs to flap their wings before they evolved the ability to fly, providing new insights into the origin of avian flight. In the U.S. journal of PLOS Computational Biology, researchers reported that they first used a mathematical approach to analyze the mechanical effects of running on various parts of a Caudipteryx -- body, two legs, two wings, tail, neck and head.