During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), China vigorously promoted the development of quantum science and technology, said Pan Jianwei, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), vice chairman of Jiu San Society, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Do Fishing Bans Work? The BBC journalist Roland Pease has been speaking to researchers about China's biggest river - the Yangtze River.

An international standard on the core features of stem cell data, led by China, has been officially released, according to the Standardization Administration of China. The newly released standard fills a long-standing gap in international standardization for stem cell data core features.

Researchers have recently investigated the interface performance of wind- and sand-eroded concrete in desert environments and have proposed scientific evidence to improve concrete reinforcement methods, said the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chinese scientist Jin Changqing, a research professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been awarded the Bernd T. Matthias Prize, the highest international honor in the field of superconducting materials exploration.

Chinese research institutions have successfully conducted a laser communication experiment between a high-orbit satellite and the ground, achieving two-way data transmission at 1 gigabit per second over a distance exceeding 40,000 kilometers.

Chinese scientists have developed a novel neural network that enables artificial intelligence (AI) to form concepts from raw sensory data like sight and sound, simulating a fundamental aspect of human cognition, according to a study published recently in the journal Nature Computational Science.

A female mouse that spent time aboard China's Tiangong space station last year has birthed her third consecutive healthy litter back on Earth, providing scientists with invaluable data on mammalian reproduction after spaceflight.

Chinese scientists have developed a high-resolution model to assess the thermal stability of water ice in the Shackleton Crater region near the lunar south pole, providing crucial guidance for the Chang'e-7 mission's quest to find and analyze one of the moon's most valuable resources. The research team from the Key Laboratory of Solar Activity and Space Weather at the National Space Science Center (NSSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the lunar polar water-ice thermal stability model.

Chinese scientists have discovered new cyprinid fish fossils from the early and middle Miocene of the Lunpola Basin in northwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. These findings indicate that fish diversity on the plateau was notably high between 18 and 15 million years ago. The research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and the Institute of Hydrobiology, both under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted detailed comparative studies on fossil specimens collected from the Lunpola Basin, which sits at an average elevation of 4,600 meters.

Chinese research team has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model called SpecCLIP, which can interpret stellar spectral data from different telescopes, demonstrating the vast potential of AI in processing and integrating massive astronomical datasets.

Land plants began colonizing the continents and shaping Earth's surface environment much earlier than previously thought, a study led by Chinese scientists showed. The research, led by researcher Zhao Mingyu at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides fresh geochemical evidence that early plants expanded massively on land between 455 million and 445 million years ago -- pushing back the timeline by more than 20 million years from the traditional view of around 420 million years ago.

A comprehensive 10-year fishing ban implemented in the Yangtze River Basin has successfully halted a 70-year decline in fish resources and triggered initial ecological recovery, according to a recent study published in the journal Science. A group of researchers coming from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with domestic and international collaborators, evaluated the ban's early impacts using systematic monitoring data collected from 2018 to 2023.

Scientists in northwestern China are releasing soil "seed" into arid desert areas to form artificial biological soil crusts, as part of efforts to stabilize dunes and create a suitable foundation for future plant growth. The "seed" is solid cyanobacteria inoculum of artificial biological soil crusts developed by the Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station, the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Scientists in China have mapped out how genetic mutations allow tumors to build "immune barriers", a discovery that could explain why modern cancer treatments often fail in patients whose cancer has spread. The study, published on Thursday in the journal Cell, offers a potential road map for making immunotherapy — a treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight disease — more effective against metastatic tumors, which are the leading cause of cancer-related deaths.

Chinese researchers have developed a novel model to explain the origin of an ultra-long gamma-ray burst (GRB), challenging the conventional understanding of these violent cosmic events. A research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of High Energy Physics conducted a comprehensive analysis of satellite observational data, including Insight-HXMT and GECAM. They examined the data from 30 days around the burst and discovered that the gamma-ray emission lasted an unprecedented 29 hours, shattering previous duration records.

As millions of families in China come together to celebrate the Lunar New Year, countless scientists and engineers are still hard at work in their laboratories, the Gobi Desert, freezing observation stations, and on engineering sites. They're pushing forward with crucial projects that will shape the future of energy, materials, and space missions.

Twenty-two Chinese scientists were honored with the 2026 Tan Kah Kee Science Award and the Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award in Beijing on Thursday, recognizing their significant contributions to original innovation in science and technology and their leadership in international frontier research.