Scientists have reconstructed a dramatic warming event that shook Earth around 300 million years ago, and their findings now serve as a stark warning about the planet's future. An international team led by researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (NIGPAS) and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has pieced together this ancient hot spell, known as the Kasimovian-Gzhelian Thermal Maximum.

In recent days, a scientific expedition to the Muz Taw Glacier in Altay was carried out by a research team from the Altay Mountains comprehensive observation and research station, in an effort to better understand the glacier's response to climate change and provide scientific data for glacier protection and water resources management in the region.

Chinese scientists have identified a new germanium-rich mineral, wusiheite, a discovery that provides fresh insight into how the strategic metal becomes highly concentrated in ore deposits and could help improve its extraction and utilization.

Chinese researchers have identified widespread corrugated structures in the Milky Way for the first time, offering fresh observational evidence for understanding the galaxy's three-dimensional architecture and dynamic evolution.

Three scientists won the 2026 Future Science Prize for their outstanding research, prize organizers in Beijing announced Thursday. Zhang Hong, a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, received the prize in life sciences for his pioneering contributions to discovering the mechanism and function unique to autophagy, or "self-eating," in multicellular organisms.

Chinese researchers have for the first time confirmed the existence of the glueball, an entirely new form of matter, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This finding comes after 15 years of experimental research.

China's comprehensive research vessel KEXUE docked at a wharf base of the Institute of Oceanology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences on Friday, marking the conclusion of a shared research cruise in the western Pacific after a 35-day voyage covering 5,845 nautical miles. The data and samples obtained during the cruise will provide scientific support for more accurate typhoon forecasting and global climate change research.

A new study led by IAP scientists identifies the mechanisms driving rising CH4 emissions from Siberian permafrost regions under rapid Arctic warming, providing scientific evidence for global methane-mitigation policies and research into regional climate thresholds.

The botanical garden, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences currently, hosts 111 international researchers and students. Though only a small fraction of China's landmass lies in the tropics, the institute is helping train a new generation of researchers to safeguard rainforests across the world.

A 100-million-year-old beetle preserved in amber is offering scientists a rare peek into the early evolution of fireflies' signature light shows and their remarkable antennae. The fossil, unearthed from Kachin amber in Myanmar, belongs to a newly identified genus named Icaroramus. An international team led by the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), reported the discovery recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Scientists using China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory recently found that a remarkable binary system in the constellation Cygnus, Cygnus X-3, is the most powerful particle accelerator discovered to date, according to the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Ming'antu observing station of the National Space Science Center, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Zhengxiangbai Banner, Xilin Gol League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Scientists from CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics and Fudan University have developed an AI-physics based ensemble forecast system for typhoons. The new system overcomes the limitations of purely data-driven models and is also expected to be extended to ensemble forecasting for other high-impact weather events.

China's monitoring technologies and conservation experience for the critically endangered freshwater cetacean, the Yangtze finless porpoise, have been thoroughly studied and adopted by neighboring Southeast Asian countries through in-depth academic and ecological exchanges.

A group of Chinese researchers has revealed a pulsar that can simultaneously exhibit three key emission variability phenomena, overturning the previous observations that pulsars showed only one or two kinds of radiation variations, according to a research article recently published in The Astrophysical Journal.

Chinese scientists have proposed a novel concept of programmable plant synthetic immunity, marking a milestone breakthrough in plant immune engineering. The achievement establishes an on-demand design platform for synthetic plant immune receptors, providing a universal technical pathway for cultivating durable and broad-spectrum crop resistance.

A study led by Chinese scientists to develop a mercury (Hg) dataset derived from air, aerosols, glaciers, soils and other environmental samples over the country's Qinghai-Xizang Plateau is expected to provide scientific support for environmental policymaking.

Recently, Prof. WANG Junqiang from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was interviewed by Singapore's Channel News Asia (CNA). Scientists at NIMTE discovered helium-3 trapped in bubbles within lunar soil retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 mission, and highlighted its strategic value as a fusion fuel for China's growing energy demand from AI and electric vehicles.