Highlights of 2022: Top 10 Achievements in CAS----Chinese Academy of Sciences

CRAFTS Discovers Younger and Weirder Brother of First Repeating Fast Radio Burst

An international team led by Dr. LI Di from the National Astronomical Observatories has discovered and localized an active repeating fast radio burst, FRB 190520B, in a metal-poor dwarf galaxy at a redshift of z=0.241.

China's Space Station to Support Large-scale Scientific Research

China plans to conduct a number of frontier scientific experiments on its Tiangong space station, with the two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, scheduled to be launched this year, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Hybrid Electro-biosystem Upcycles Carbon Dioxide into Energy-rich Long-chain Compounds

Chinese researchers have developed a hybrid electro-biosystem, coupling spatially separate CO₂ electrolysis with yeast fermentation, which efficiently converted CO₂ to glucose.

China Successfully Launches Its Largest Solid Carrier Rocket

China launched its solid carrier rocket Lijian-1 at 12:12 p.m. on Wednesday, successfully sending six experimental scientific satellites into preset orbit. Developed by CAS, Lijian-1 lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.

Images Obtained by China's 1st Comprehensive Solar Probe Kuafu-1 Released

China released on Tuesday the first batch of scientific images captured by the country's Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), also known as Kuafu-1, a satellite specially designed to carry out comprehensive probes of the Sun.

China Claims New World Record for Strongest Steady Magnetic Field

The hybrid magnet at the Steady High Magnetic Field Facility in Hefei, China set a world record for the highest steady magnetic field by a working magnet when it produced a steady field of 45.22 tesla on Aug. 12. It broke the previous world record of 45 tesla set in 1999.

Record-setting Expedition on Mt. Qomolangma Completes Main Tasks

China's Peak Mission expedition has set a number of world records at the world's highest mountain. It is the second comprehensive scientific expedition China has conducted on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The Rise of Fishes Illuminated by Discovery of Fossil "treasure hoard"

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have discovered two fossil repositories in the early Silurian strata in southwestern Chongqing and Guizhou, which are rewriting the evolutionary story of "from fish to human".

Holistic Evolution of Charge Transfer to Photocatalyst Surface Sites Mapped for First Time

Researcher in China have mapped the spatiotemporal evolution of charge transfers in cuprous oxide photocatalyst particles, integrating three different techniques to reveal a holistic picture of the complex charge-transport mechanisms.

World's Largest Flow Battery Energy Storage Station & First 100-MW Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant

The 100 MW Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak-shaving Power Station with the largest power and capacity in the world and the world’s first 100-MW advanced compressed air energy storage national demonstration project were connected to the grid.