Chinese researchers have discovered a gene which plays an important role in cadmium accumulation in rice, providing a reference for the cultivation of low-cadmium rice varieties. Cadmium, a kind of toxic heavy metal, can be easily absorbed and enriched in rice, and then enters the human body through the food chain, thus posing a serious threat to human health.

Chinese researchers have improved a diagnostics system for nuclear fusion devices, paving the way for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power in the future. At the temperatures required for fusion reactions, the matter can only exist in the plasma state, free negative electrons and positive nuclei.

Primate populations may be increasingly threatened by extreme climatic events including cyclones and droughts, according to an international study. Researchers from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology and international researchers from Mexico and the U.K. assessed the vulnerability of the world's 607 primate species to two types of extreme climatic events including cyclone and drought, which are expected to increase in the future.

Senior Chinese archaeologists have evaluated astronomical relics discovered in central China's Henan Province as the country's earliest evidence for "observing the images and giving time," advancing history by nearly 1,000 years.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences launched its second summer internship program for Hong Kong undergraduates in Beijing on Monday, allowing students from the special administrative region to learn about traditional Chinese culture and scientific development and build relations with peers from the Chinese mainland.

Chinese research vessel Kexue, or Science, completed its month-long expedition to the western Pacific Ocean and returned to Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, on Saturday. It was the vessel's fifth investigation of sea mounts and scientists aboard explored a series of the underwater mountains in the southern part of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on earth.

The 29th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC) kicked off Monday in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province. The conference, the first time to be held in China, was hosted by the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Molecular Plant, an international English journal established by Chinese academies, remained popular among 228 of the world's leading plant science journals in the latest Science Citation Index (SCI), the People's Daily reported Monday.

Researchers from the institutes and universities of China, the United States and Canada have disclosed that plant growing season has not extended significantly with global warming slowing down. The findings can help people better understand the responses of phenology to climate change and the climate-carbon feedback.

A joint expedition team of China and Myanmar has finished their mission recently and collected more than 6,000 specimens of plants and animals, the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Friday.

Chinese astronomers plan to use the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), by far the largest telescope ever built, to search for birthplaces of new suns so they can better understand how stars and life substances are formed.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) handed over a high-definition cropland distribution dataset to Zambia on Thursday, aiming to help the southern African nation develop its agriculture sector. The Zambia National Fine Resolution Cropland Data Layer provides nationwide close to real-time cropland data and up to a 10-meter resolution ratio, according to CAS.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences remains the world's top academic institution, and China held onto the second spot for the quality of research output in the latest Nature Index tables, which have been published annually since 2014.

Chinese scientists have announced that they had completed chromosome-scale sequencing and assembly of the genome of an invasive alien species -- spodoptera frugiperda, which is commonly known as fall armyworm, a species that causes heavy damage to crops.

Chinese scientists have developed a new catalyst that can be used to eliminate antibiotics in water with high efficiency. Scientists from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tackled the problems by creating a nanoscale catalyst that broadens the pH application range of the Fenton system.

A microbial data alliance has been formed in Beijing to promote the sharing of microbiological resources, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The alliance was initiated by the National Microbial Data Center, which was jointly established by the CAS and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

A karst cave in northwestern China has been confirmed as the earliest archaeological site ever discovered on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Chinese researchers announced at a press conference over the weekend.

Chinese researchers have developed a noninvasive smart headband to detect blood oxygen levels in the brain. It can give warnings if the patient is at a higher risk of a stroke and some other medical conditions.