The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Thursday released the phased results of its efforts to protect the country's black soil, a nutrient-rich soil that is essential for food security. According to a CAS report, seven large demonstration areas had been established in China's northeastern provinces by the end of last year, covering some 5 million hectares.

Two collections of fish fossils found in China, dating back to around 439 to 436 million years, help researchers make major breakthroughs in studying how humans evolved from fish. The studies led by Zhu Min, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), were published in four papers in the top journal Nature on Wednesday.

A team of Chinese scientists have found possible traces of water activities on Mars, according to a study published in scientific journal Nature. Their findings are based on data collected from China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, during which a rover landed on the surface of the red planet.

China's scientific research vessel Explorer 2, carrying the 4,500-meter manned submersible Shenhai Yongshi (Deep-sea Warrior), returned to Sanya in south China's Hainan Province on Sunday, after completing its latest missions over the past 10 days.

China started to build the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope this week in its northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The QiTai radio Telescope (QTT), located in Qitai County, Xinjiang, will have a steerable dish with a diameter of 110 meters – 10 percent larger than that of the Green Bank Telescope in America's West Virginia, which is currently the largest of this type in the world.

On Monday, Chinese scientists published new findings from the Tianwen 1 Mars probe in science journal Nature. Sun Ye has more on the latest discoveries from the red planet. The newly published findings shed new light on the make-up of the Martian Utopia Planitia surface, the stretch of land that China's home-grown Mars probe had surveyed starting last summer.

A large pod of Yangtze finless porpoises was spotted near Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan Province this Saturday during the fourth Yangtze finless porpoise scientific expedition of the species.

China launched a scientific survey of Yangtze finless porpoises, an iconic species in the country's longest river Yangtze, on Monday, with an aim to formulate a more targeted protection plan for the species.

A Chinese scientific research team published the results of their observations on a fast radio burst (FRB) in Nature on Wednesday. Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University observed nearly 1,863 bursts of repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 20201124A, obtaining the world's largest FRB polarization observation sample.

Chinese scientists have discovered that a sustained decline in dinosaur diversity happened in the Late Cretaceous period through studies on dinosaur egg fossils. Researchers assessed 1,000 fossilized dinosaur eggs and eggshells from the Shanyang Basin in central China's Shaanxi Province, and identified a decline in dinosaur diversity.

Chinese researchers studied over 1,000 fossilized dinosaur eggs and eggshells from the Shanyang Basin in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and found evidence to support the hypothesis that dinosaurs were not very diverse before their extinction and had declined overall during the last part of the Cretaceous.

The fourth Yangtze finless porpoise scientific expedition kicked off on Monday in Wuhan City, central China's Hubei Province to survey the population, natural habitats and living conditions of the critically endangered species endemic to China's longest river.