A team of Chinese and Japanese astronomers found that a special star within the Galactic halo was originated from a dwarf galaxy, which was disrupted and "swallowed up" by the Milky Way. Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are believed to be the main building blocks of our galaxy. However, it is unclear how many and what kind of stars in our galaxy are originated from satellite dwarf galaxies.

China has launched a smart mini-program of stem cells research to facilitate data and information services, according to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The WeChat mini-program, called stem cell research assistant, was jointly developed by the Chengdu Library and Information Center and Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the CAS.

Within the framework of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s visit to the People's Republic of China, Uzbekistan and PRC discussed the creation of a joint medical technology park for the synthesis of medicinal substances. The Minister of Innovation Development of Uzbekistan, academician Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, and the project head of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Jingshan Shen, signed a letter of intent.

In response to BRI countries'developmental obstacles, CAS launched the joint centers overseas to serve the needs of host countries and act as collaborative platforms to overcome key obstacles via scientific methods, expertise and tools.

Modern botanical gardens are global treasures in an age of ecological crisis. They are more than gardens for people to relax. They are scholarly places for the research and conservation of plants. A national system of Chinese botanical gardens is proposed to be created to promote the development of botanical gardens and serve the ecological civilization.

A total of 12 million yuan ($1.78 million) of cash will be granted to 12 international scientists for their groundbreaking academic contributions to the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications, according to a press release by the newly founded Micius Quantum Foundation on Friday.

Researchers have discovered that lower cloud coverage in the Antarctic can promote sea ice growth. Unlike the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice in the warming climate, Antarctic sea ice witnessed a modest extension over the past four decades, according to the paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.

"I've seen people faint here," warns physicist He Huihai as he deplanes at Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest at 4411 meters above sea level. Many of his colleagues at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing take a day to acclimate before resuming work on the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), an ambitious new observatory here on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

Chinese scientists have unveiled the mystery of how hadal snailfish, a typical deep-sea species from the Mariana Trench, could survive the harsh conditions of 7,000 meters under the sea.This is the first time researchers have revealed the genetic basis of the hadal snailfish' adaption to harsh conditions under the sea and the research was published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), a cosmic ray detection facility located in the high mountains of Sichuan province, recently began scientific observation of very high energy cosmic rays as it launched operation of its first set of detectors.The goal of LHAASO, which will be completed in 2021, is to discover high energy gamma ray sources, and precisely measure the radiation spectrum of very high energy gamma ray sources and energy spectra of various cosmic ray species over a wide range.

The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is a plant research station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Southwest China's Yunnan province. Now 60 years old, the garden fosters over 13-thousand species of plants in its more than 30 living collections. Let's now take a look at one of the most diverse botanical gardens for outdoor plants in the world.

Chinese scientists have recreated the process of Earth's first mass extinction with high accuracy, which will contribute to the study of biological evolution. Scientists in east China's Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said they made the achievement under a comprehensive stratigraphic framework about three times more accurate than before.

Science facilities on China's planned Tiangong space station could support hundreds of space research projects after it's completed in 2022. Sixteen experiment racks will be installed in the core module and two lab capsules of the space station, and an extravehicular experiment platform will be built.

A large community of an endangered plant species has been discovered in Houhe National Nature Reserve in Central China's Hubei Province, according to the reserve. The plant, Changiostyrax dolichocarpa, was spotted during a survey conducted by a researching team of Wuhan Botanical Garden (WBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with staff in the reserve.

An asteroid has been named after leading Chinese astrophysicist Zhou Youyuan, with approval from the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the China Science Daily reported Monday. Asteroid Zhouyouyuan, coded 120730, was discovered in 1997 by astronomers with the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong observatory in north China, according to an IAU communique.

Scientists from the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences prepared a new needle-shaped sensor based on the acupuncture stainless steel needle, through the processes of insulation, sealing and functionalization with nanomaterials.

Chinese scientists have found a cheaper way to produce hydrogen energy by developing a new catalyst. The catalyst was developed by scientists from the University of Science and Technology of China, who used an alloy to improve the activity and stability of a kind of precious metal catalyst.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has provided over 1.8 billion yuan (about 268 million U.S. dollars) for Belt and Road (B&R) science and technology projects since the B&R Initiative was proposed in 2013, said CAS President Bai Chunli on Friday.