A new study from China has found that men and women age in strikingly different ways -- and the clues lie hidden in the results of everyday blood tests and health checkups. Researchers looked at health data from more than 104,000 adults across China, aged 18 to 98. They focused on 172 common measurements, like weight, cholesterol, and blood sugar. From this, they built special "aging clocks" to show when human bodies go through the biggest changes over time.

A new study has uncovered the mechanisms behind the devastating mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on August 26, finding that the disaster was not triggered by heavy rain but by glacial instability amplified along a 22‑km path.

On Tuesday, the world's largest iron ore magnetization roasting project, with an annual capacity of 5.56 million tonnes, passed official acceptance tests in Anshan, northeast China's Liaoning Province. It has been operating stably at full capacity, with key performance indicators exceeding design targets. The project marks a major breakthrough in the industrial use of low-grade iron ore.

A group of Chinese researchers has unveiled the Robotic Marine Materials Scientist Platform, an intelligent fabrication system that dramatically improves materials research and development efficiency over conventional approaches.

Scientists have long grappled with a perplexing question: in the early universe, new stars appeared with dazzling frequency, yet today, star formation has clearly slowed. Now, a new study led by Chinese scientists is offering fresh and crucial clues to help unravel this cosmic mystery.

The Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently launched an international academic journal titled Data Research and Applications (DRA), which is dedicated to the open sharing of scientific research data.

The latest version of China's first large language model dedicated to the chemical industry was released on Monday, marking a significant leap from knowledge acquisition to intelligent execution of chemical tasks, and providing new support for managing complex chemical operations, said northeast China's Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

An ice-rock avalanche originating from a high-mountain glacier in Nepal has been identified as the cause of a devastating mudslide that struck Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, local authorities said Sunday.

Researchers have completed a laser communications test between Earth and the Moon, successfully verifying two-way high-speed laser link capabilities in orbit, the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Friday.

An unusual mushroom first found growing on an apple is moving closer to mass production, as Chinese researchers seek to turn the chance discovery into a new food product for supermarket shelves. The story began two years ago, when a resident surnamed Deng in Zhejiang province found a white mushroom growing from an apple at her home. The unusual find caught the attention of Xu Rongju, a doctoral student at the Kunming institute, who asked her to send the apple to Kunming for further study.

The catastrophic mudslide that struck the China-Nepal border on August 26 was triggered by a large-scale glacier collapse in Nepal with a close link to the impacts of global climate change, said Amodmani Dixit, a senior Nepalese geologist and seismologist, in an interview, calling for deeper practical cooperation of the two countries to address climate-related disasters in the Himalayas.

The Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography shared field-tested green technologies and offering practical solutions for other countries facing land degradation.

An international team led by Chinese researchers has uncovered an early insect species dating back roughly 324 million years that displays both aquatic and terrestrial features, providing direct evidence of how insects gradually made the transition from water to land.

A system referred to as the "super AI babysitter" is now being used to monitor the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in Wuhan, Hubei province. The AI system uses an algorithm to identify the daily activities and mother-baby interactions of the species via video. Data from the images is compiled into standardized growth profiles that map out what care each animal needs.

Under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's green agenda, Chinese and Uzbek scientists have joined forces to restore the ecosystem. Researchers from Xinjiang — home to over 40% of China's saline-alkali land — have developed salt-tolerant plants and water-saving technologies. Since 2018, they have sent more than 1.3 tons of seeds and drip-irrigation systems to Uzbekistan's parched basin. The results include approximately 2 million hectares of revegetated land, weakened dust storms, and cotton yields tripled while water consumption fell by 40% to 50%.

​The 17th UN Conference to Combat Desertification is underway, and scientists are pushing for urgent global action. On the sidelines, the Alliance of National and International Science Organizations for the Belt and Road Regions, known as ANSO, collaborated with the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS) and experts and partners, has released a major initiative targeting fragile dryland ecosystems.

A new global study has found that forest trees do not change their internal workings much when faced with long periods of drought, suggesting that such trees may not be able to adjust to drier conditions as easily as some scientists had hoped. This finding offers a robust scientific basis for forest conservation efforts.

Chinese scientists have built a tiny robot that swims like a manta ray -- a large, flat fish that glides through the ocean with wing-like fins -- and it is powered by real frog muscle. Their findings were recently published in the international journal Advanced Functional Materials.