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.

Chinese scientists from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences have recently discovered a new method to deal with wastewater and degrade antibiotics. The novel technology, namely low-temperature plasma, can rapidly and efficiently degrade antibiotic residue like norfloxacin, oxytetracycline and oxytetracycline in medical wastewater, the researchers found.

Chinese scientists from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology have developed a new method for microRNAs detection, which can contribute to the early detection and diagnosis of various types of cancer.

Chinese astronomers have detected repeated fast radio bursts (FRB) - mysterious signals believed to be from a source about 3 billion light years from Earth - with the largest and most sensitive radio telescope ever built. Scientists detected the signals with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) and they are carefully cross-checking and processing them, according to researchers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC).

Chinese researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology have disclosed that a species asynchrony, illustrating the difference in species reaction rates on external environment changes, was the determinant of the temporal stability of aboveground biomass in temperate forests.

The Future Science Prize announced on Saturday that four scientists will be crowned this year for their contributions to fields in science and technology. The prize focuses on original basic science research and rewards scientists who have made outstanding scientific and technological achievements in China.

An international team of researchers have found how a type of duckweed copes with water pollution. They used a new approach called "long-read, whole-genome sequencing" to study the genome of Spirodela polyrhiza, a species of small and fast-going duckweed found worldwide.

Chinese scientists are making efforts to build a cutting-edge platform for the research on pathogenic microbial infection and the development of infectious disease prevention and control products. The research will benefit not only China but also other countries, scientists with the Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) told dozens of foreign journalists who visited the lab recently.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) handed over an arable land distribution data product here on Thursday to Zimbabwe, as the two countries are strengthening scientific cooperation to boost food security in the southern African country.

The international biodiversity conference taking place in Kenya's Maasai Mara University has shed light on the growing contribution of China towards conservation of rare species in Africa. Policymakers and scientists attending the conference co-organized by Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) and Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre (SAJOREC), noted that biodiversity conservation has become a critical feature of China-Africa bilateral cooperation.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Sino-Zimbabwe Wildlife Foundation on Thursday donated anti-poaching equipment to the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks). The 62,000-U.S.-dollar worth of equipment includes six conservation drones, a laptop, power point projector and 1,000 first aid kits.

China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-dish radio telescope, has for the first time detected eruptive pulses of radio energy from an object known to the astronomy community as FRB 121102.

China has published a national standard for ground search-and-rescue robots, according to a source of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Drafting of the national standard, initiated by the Standardization Administration of China, was undertaken by the Shenyang Institute of Automation under the CAS, in cooperation with units including the National Earthquake Response Support Service and a number of leading robot companies.

An international research team recently discovered a segmented bilaterian fossil about 550 million years old in China, which represents one of the oldest mobile and segmented animals. The new fossil species, found in the Yangtze Gorges area, is named Yilingia spiciformis.

The Chinese and Australian scientific communities have great potential for partnership in tackling sustainability, rapid urbanization, new cutting-edge technologies, as well as other pressing challenges of the time, experts from both countries said on Wednesday.