China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) achieved a new milestone in their space partnership on December 10, 2025, as Arab Satellite 813 was successfully launched into orbit aboard China's Lijian-1 Y11 rocket. The launch marks a historic step in space cooperation between the two countries. Lijian-1's developer, CAS Space – a commercial spaceflight company established by the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) – has now served a total of 32 satellite customers, including 26 domestic and six international clients.

In order to study the construction and renovation history of this complex, a team of Chinese researchers has successfully pinpointed the growth years of three ancient timbers in the Forbidden City and traced their geographical origins via oxygen isotope analysis. Xu Chenxi, a researcher at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has devoted himself to the study of paleoclimate change, specifically using stable isotopes in tree rings to investigate variations of the Asian monsoon over the past millennium.

China's northernmost satellite data receiving station officially commenced operations on Friday, according to the station's developer, the Aerospace Information Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A new study by Chinese scientists has advanced understanding of the mechanism and impact of permafrost collapse, particularly thaw slumps, on the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientists have identified a key mechanism that governs the function of plant stem cells — cells that enable plants to continuously generate new leaves, stems and flowers — a finding that could enable the improvement of crop yields, quality and resilience. The researchers found that the mechanical properties of the plant cell wall play a pivotal role in stem cell regulation.

Liang Wenfeng, founder of the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek, and "Deep diver" Chinese geoscientist Du Mengran have been selected for the journal Nature's annual "Nature's 10" list, which highlights ten people at the heart of some of the biggest science stories of 2025. The pair are recognized respectively for driving the development of powerful large-scale AI models and for pioneering deep-sea exploration that revealed some of the deepest animal ecosystems ever observed on Earth.

The 3rd Youth Innovation Forum on Digital Earth, also known as the Joint ISPRS-ISDE Conference on Geo-Digitalization for Sustainable Development Goals, was held in Nairobi, Kenya, marking a historic milestone as the forum convened on the African continent for the first time.

Recently, researchers from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics (LICP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully developed China's first adaptive hydrogel biomimetic suction disc. This breakthrough addresses key technological challenges in underwater grasping and fine manipulation, providing crucial technical support for related industrial upgrades.

A groundbreaking experiment recreates Einstein's 1927 thought challenge, confirming fundamental quantum principle. In a landmark study that brings a definitive close to one of the most famous debates in modern physics, a team of Chinese scientists has experimentally validated Niels Bohr's core quantum principle, demonstrating that a particle's path and its wave-like behavior are fundamentally mutually exclusive – a notion Albert Einstein famously resisted.

This year's newly elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said at the certificate awarding ceremony on Friday that they would leverage their research to drive economic development and address the pressing needs of the country. In November, the CAS announced the election of 73 new members from China, bringing the total CAS number to 908.

A group of Chinese researchers has carried out a comprehensive simulation of the Martian dust cycle, based on their self-developed next-generation Mars general-circulation model named GoMars. According to a research article published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, the researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have managed to reveal the behavior of Martian dust and have laid the cornerstone for dependable Martian weather forecasts and climate projections by rigorously evaluating the simulation performance of GoMars.

A research team led by the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently mapped a comprehensive landscape of natural aging in rhesus monkeys, covering all major organ systems across multiple molecular dimensions, the China Science Daily reported on Thursday.

China on Wednesday released reports on global research hotspots and emerging frontiers in 2025 and selected 128 research frontiers that have performed actively or developed rapidly during this year. The two reports, jointly issued by the Institutes of Science and Development, the National Science Library, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the global analytics firm Clarivate, seek to analyze major frontier scientific breakthroughs that may influence the world's future development, and support China's national strategy for sci-tech innovation.

Amid global climate change, Chinese scientists have recently made significant progress in understanding the heat tolerance mechanisms in rice, identifying its heat-tolerant genes, and developing new varieties suited to future climates. Their study involved field trials simulating high-temperature conditions, where the scientists identified two key regulatory factors in rice that sense and respond to heat.

Researchers have produced the first high-resolution maps detailing forest diversity patterns across China. The study was led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with domestic and international institutions, and its results have been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

As winter blankets Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, the vibrant landscape belies the scientific milestone it houses: a 30-square-meter "vault of life" -- the seed bank of the National Wild Plant Germplasm Resource Center for Chenshan Botanical Garden. The Center recently announced a significant achievement: it now holds over 100 million viable seeds, representing 1,950 wild plant species from 159 families and 785 genera, including 323 species endemic to China and 68 rare and endangered species.

​In the course of almost two years after China's astronomical satellite named Einstein Probe (EP) was launched, it has managed to capture many extraordinary transient events in the universe that flicker like fireworks, thereby helping expand human understanding of extreme physical phenomena in the cosmos.

Scientists have harnessed ancient DNA to reconstruct the intricate social structure of one of China's earliest cities, revealing a genetically diverse society anchored in the authority of patrilineal clans. The research published on Thursday in Nature presents the first direct genetic evidence regarding the origins of the Shimao population -- the builders of Shimao, a massive Neolithic walled settlement in northern China that thrived around 4,300 years ago and was abandoned about 500 years later.