A ban on radio equipment and electromagnetic gadgets went into effect on Monday in the core silence zone of the world's largest telescope located in southwest China's Guizhou Province. Covering a wide range of electronic equipment from phones, digital cameras, and smart wearable devices, to tablets, speakers and drones, the ban is part of a newly revised regulation to keep the noise down and prevent human activities from affecting the telescope, known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST).

China has released 11.25 million spectra of celestial objects acquired by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to astronomers worldwide, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Friday.

Chinese researchers have developed a new nanocomposite that can accurately detect lead, one of the most toxic heavy metals found in water. Chinese researchers from the Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a nanocomposite to achieve a sensitive and anti-interference electrochemical sensing for the analysis of lead.

Chinese scientists have designed a method to turn agricultural waste into high-density aviation fuels, which might reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the aviation industry. The research provides a new strategy for the manufacture of advanced aviation fuels with cellulose. Researchers are still making improvements, and it is expected to be commercialized in three to five years.

China and the United Kingdom launched four new joint projects to extend their current cooperation landscape on 27 March, during the visit of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Carole Mundell, to Shanghai Campus of the CAS-JIC Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Science (CEPAMS).

A group of scientists in Gansu province have discovered a fossilized bird dating back about 110 million years and the first ever to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen. The fossil represents a new species, Avimaia schweitzerae, belonging to a group called the Enantiornithes, which was abundant around the world and coexisted with dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period.

Russian and Chinese scientists will conduct a joint investigation using unmanned underwater vehicle (UUVs), Alexander Shcherbatyuk, the director of the Institute of Marine Technology Problems of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) on Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement which will enable them to exchange young scientists and experts and strengthen academic cooperation between China and Serbia.

A group of scientists have discovered a fossil bird dating back about 110 million years, which is the first ever found to have an unlaid egg in its abdomen. The fossil represents a new species, Avimaia schweitzerae, belonging to a group called the Enantiornithes which was abundant around the world and co-existed with dinosaurs in the Cretaceous period.

Chinese scientists have identified a critically endangered new species of Paris, a valuable herb in traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), in Southwest China's Yunnan province. This new species was named Paris lihengiana to pay tribute to Li Heng, who is accredited to identifying over half of the world's known Paris species and promoting its planting to enrich Chinese villagers in remote mountains.

In late March 2019, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, or SMILE, a China-ESA joint mission, was adopted for implementation by the European Space Agency (ESA). The adoption, as a milestone event, signifies the kick-off of the engineering phase of the joint scientific mission, which aims to study the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth magnetosphere.

The Russian and Chinese Academies of Sciences plan to sign an agreement on cooperation in exploring the Tibetan Plateau in July 2019, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) President Alexander Sergeyev told TASS on Monday.

PAN Jianwei, a renowned Chinese physicist and professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) won the 2019 R. W. Wood Prize presented by the Optical Society of America (OSA). It is the first time that a Chinese scientist has won the prize with a local research project since the award was established in 1975.

Researchers from Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a German company SAP jointly developed an intelligent manufacturing solution to satisfy the demands of customization. It is expected to be applied in the manufacturing of automobiles, elevators and smartphones.

Chinese scientists designed a process that could convert plant scraps from agriculture and timber harvesting into quality jet fuel, which may help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes and rockets. The study showed that a cheap, renewable and abundant polymer in the plant's cell walls can produce high-density aviation fuel.

Chinese scientists have carried out trial growing of high-quality crops in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan, and have selected three hybrid rice varieties suitable for Kenya, according to Wang Qingfeng, head of the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJRC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fish fossils, dating back about 425 million years ago, are providing insights into the evolution of scales on bony fishes. Researchers at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have studied the morphology and squamation of scales on five fossils of a kind of ancient fish named Guiyu oneiros, or "dreamlike ghost fish."

In recent years, Circular RNAs (circRNAs), a type of RNAs beyond the textbook classics, are of huge interest to many molecular biologists. Chinese researchers have built an open database on Circular RNAs, laying the groundwork for studies on the novel class of RNAs with important biological implications.