A team from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has decoded the DNA of the flowerpot snake that reproduces without males, uncovering the genomic mechanisms behind their all-female reproduction. This study challenges traditional views that asexual reproduction inevitably leads to an evolutionary dead end.

A multidisciplinary team led by the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia, shedding new light on the evolution of the region's early hominins. The findings are based on artifacts excavated from the Longtan site in Heqing County, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

A Chinese research team led by Yu Yinghong, a researcher at the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, has pioneered a revolutionary leap in agricultural technology: a nondestructive testing system that performs "seed CT scans" to assess the vitality of individual seeds.

Chinese scientists, in collaboration with several international research institutions, have led the construction of a high-precision surface solar radiation monitoring system on a near-global scale. The joint research led by researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with scientists from Japan, France, and the UK has recently been published in the international academic journal The Innovation.

Chinese scientists have identified a significant but often overlooked consequence of microplastic pollution -- its harmful impact on photosynthesis -- a fundamental process driving Earth's primary productivity and food security. The study, conducted by researchers from the Institute of Soil Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) and Nanjing University, was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recently the plant immunity team led by Professor Liu Zhiyong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, unveiled a novel immune mechanism by which tandem kinases combat pathogen invasion: an atypical NLR protein, WTN1 (Wheat Tandem NBD 1), partners with the tandem kinase WTK3 to detect pathogen effectors and initiate immune responses.

Participants at a parallel forum of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing unveiled an initiative on Thursday, calling for global collaboration to leverage digital science and technology to accelerate sustainable development and address global challenges.

A research group led by Prof. GE Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a low-crystallinity guest acceptor D-IDT via tin-free direct C–H activation as a third component of the binary organic solar cells (OSCs), achieving a highly stable OSC with the power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 19.92 percent.

On China's space station orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth, scientists are conducting a series of astounding laboratory experiments. In the "Tiangong Aquarium" ecosystem, four grams of hornwort, a fast-growing aquatic plant that can oxygenate water, were added. Over 43 days in orbit, the zebrafish not only swam freely but also naturally spawned in the space environment, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) kicked off in Beijing on Thursday. At the opening ceremony, China's 10 scientific advances of 2024 were released. The selection of the advances is hosted by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and organized by the High Technology Research and Development Center (Basic Research Management Center) of NSFC.

The High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), China's flagship synchrotron radiation facility, has officially launched its joint commissioning phase, marking its final construction stage. The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the main HEPS developer, announced the new development at a parallel forum of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing on Thursday.

A group of Chinese researchers has developed a wearable repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) device, according to a recent research article published in the journal Nature Communications. Researchers from the Institute of Automation, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed the battery-powered wearable rTMS device through lightweight magnetic core coil designs, high-power-density and high-voltage pulse driving techniques. The combined weight of the stimulator and coil is only three kilograms.

A Chinese research team has discovered a new genus and species of tubalepid antiarch, Tongdulepis concavus, which dates back approximately 390 million years in Qujing, Yunnan Province, according to the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) on Sunday.

China just announced a groundbreaking "human cell lineage" mega-facility in South China's Guangdong, designed to crack the code of human development, disease, and aging. Led by Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the facility aims to map the spatiotemporal evolution of cells throughout the human lifespan, develop a large-scale AI model for digital cells, and construct a digital physiological human.

As reported in Advanced Photonics Nexus, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently made a significant advancement by developing a compact, solid-state laser system capable of generating 193-nm coherent light. This wavelength is crucial for photolithography, a process used to etch intricate patterns onto silicon wafers, forming the backbone of modern electronic devices.

China's space station is set to introduce a novel participant in its space science experiments -- the planarian, a creature renowned for its extraordinary regenerative capabilities, China Media Group reported on Saturday. The study of planarians holds profound implications for understanding human cellular mechanisms to combat aging and promote longevity, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The 2025 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS 2025) announced its laureates for the Basic Science Lifetime Awards and Frontiers of Science Awards at a press conference held Friday at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Six globally renowned scientists, including Samuel Chao Chung Ting, Steven Chu, and David Jonathan Gross, Robert Endre Tarjan, Shigefumi Mori, and George Lusztig, were honored with the Lifetime Awards.

Based on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a research team led by Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, was formed 4.25 billion years ago, providing critical insights into the understanding of the early evolution of the moon and the solar system.