A new study has revealed that changes in plant life had played a crucial role in speeding up major climate shifts during the late Miocene, a period that lasted from 11.6 to 5.3 million years ago. The study, recently published in the journal Science Advances, was led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Sun Yuanxia in north China's Tianjin Municipality has dedicated over two decades to "sweet research." Sun, a researcher at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led her team in developing a special platform for rare sugar biosynthesis. This achievement in 2023 has revolutionized traditional concepts of sugar manufacturing.
Amid the forested hills and mirror-like lakes of Beijing's Huairou district, a scientific revolution is unfolding at ultrafast timescales. Within the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility — a crown jewel of China's Big Science Infrastructure — experimental setups pulse with red and green lasers, their beams threading through vacuum chambers with micron-level precision.
Chinese scientists have achieved satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space in daytime for the first time in the world, despite the strong daylight interference, said the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Tuesday.
Last year, Chen Liquan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was awarded the CAS Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, a recognition for a lifetime of groundbreaking contributions. From developing China's first all-solid-state lithium metal battery to mentoring a new generation of scientists and entrepreneurs, Chen's work has been instrumental in transforming China from a follower to a global leader in battery technology.
While China's green energy transition appears to have a heavy focus on electric vehicles, solar, wind and hydro power, another clean energy source being developed is hydrogen. Zhou Wu, an expert on hydrogen catalysis has been a driving force behind China's research into the process that could revolutionize the clean commercial production of hydrogen.
At the end of 2024, Chinese scientist Wei Yuansong, a leading expert in water pollution control, received an extraordinary honor: a set of commemorative stamps issued by Sri Lanka featuring his portrait. This rare tribute recognized his decade-long commitment to providing communities with safe drinking water and fostering scientific collaboration between China and Sri Lanka.
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