Chinese animal lovers on Sunday celebrated the 100-day anniversary of the birth of the first calf born to a Yangtze River dolphin kept in a completely artificial environment at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province.

Chinese researchers have disclosed that gray wolves from the country's different regions derived from different lineages. Gray wolves, or Canis lupus, are one of many widely distributed terrestrial mammals in Eurasia, North America and North Africa.

A recently-launched Chinese satellite has conducted in-orbit experiments on the key technologies related to space-based gravitational wave detection, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Friday.

Chinese researchers have successfully conducted an in situ measurement of lunar dust at the landing site of the country's Chang'e-3 probe. As lunar dust is regarded as the most crucial environmental problem on the Moon, the research results are "strategically important for future human and robotic lunar expeditions," according to the researchers.

An international team of researchers developed a unified framework that would account for this apparent break down between classical and quantum physics, and they put it to the test using a quantum satellite called Micius. They published their results ruling out one version of their theory on Sept 19th in Science.

The No.6 poloidal field superconducting coil (or PF6 coil), the first large superconducting magnet coil of ITER (short for International Thermonuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor) project, has been completed and will be shipped to ITER site in France at the delivery ceremony held on 20 September in Hefei, Anhui, China.

Chinese scientists have developed online monitoring instruments for marine biological surveys and tested them in the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The instruments were developed by the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science under the CAS.

A new Chinese drug to alleviate patients' neuropathic pain, or nerve pain, has entered clinical trials, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology Tuesday. The pain reliever SR419 was developed by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai SIMR Biotechnology Co., Ltd.

Chinese researchers suggested that the importance of high altitude areas in tropical rain forests be highlighted under global warming because mountaintops can help preserve cold-adapted plants against climate change. This kind of climate refugia successfully preserved many species during the Quaternary glacial period, when glaciers formed and climate changed rapidly, thus affected the evolutionary processes and the maintenance of biodiversity.

John Speakman, a Principal Investigator at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other Europeans shared their experience on doing science in China.

Researchers have discovered that sand cays in the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea can be a new carrier to accurately record paleocyclones, or cyclones in ancient times, according to a recent study paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Chinese astronomers have completed about 71.4 percent of a grand project to paint a portrait of the vast Milky Way, according to the Qinghai station of the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It's expected to take another four to five years to complete the whole project, named "Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting," which was launched in 2011.

An international joint research found a new species called Mollisonia plenovenatrix, which is believed to be the oldest chelicerate. The discovery places the origin of chelicerate, a vast group of arthropods with over 115,000 species, including horseshoe crabs, scorpions and spiders, to a time more than 500 million years ago.

Researchers from 28 institutions in nine countries quantified the effect of rising carbon dioxide on terrestrial carbon dioxide sink since the 1960s, using simulations from 12 terrestrial ecosystem models and observations from seven field carbon dioxide enrichment experiments. The result showed that the northern temperate and site-scale terrestrial carbon sink enhancement by carbon dioxide fertilization are positively correlated across the models.

Named as the new editor-in-chief of Nature in 2018, geneticist Magdalena Skipper is the first woman to head the science journal, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. As a scientist, she has witnessed China's dramatic progress in the world of science. "China has indeed made great strides in improving the quality and integrity of its research," said Skipper in an interview with Xinhua.

The ancient and delicate art of origami has reached the atomic scale, with researchers now able to precisely fold graphene — an atom-thick sheet of carbon — into custom shapes. The technique could be used to build tiny structures like nanorobots and flexible circuits or help create more powerful processors.

Researchers have successfully completed quantifying land carbon sink enhancement by carbon dioxide fertilization over the past five decades. Researchers from 28 institutions in nine countries quantified the effect of rising carbon dioxide on terrestrial carbon dioxide sink since the 1960s, using simulations from 12 terrestrial ecosystem models and observations from seven field carbon dioxide enrichment experiments.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina signed the Beijing Declaration on Monday, pledging to step up basic research and promote communication among young researchers from the two countries.