China is on track to achieve the targets set in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with breakthroughs in many key areas showing a positive impact on global progress, according to a report released on Saturday. Over the past decade, China has attained dynamic monitoring of more than 90 percent of the Sustainable Development Goal indicators, with 60.5 percent of them close to or already achieved as of 2024, thereby forming a synergistic model of technology, policy and governance, the report said.
The shifts in marine sulfate concentrations can flip the way that methane is consumed on the seafloor, acting as a geochemical switch that modulates Earth's climate, according to a research article published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers of the study, from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), warned that a similar switch may emerge again as the modern Arctic Ocean warms and freshens at an accelerating pace.
Chinese scientists announced on Sunday that they have successfully generated a steady magnetic field of 351,000 gauss with a fully superconducting magnet, setting a new world record. The breakthrough will significantly advance the commercialization of advanced superconducting scientific instruments, such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, according to the scientists.
A new study of a 1-million-year-old human skull found in central China revealed a previously unknown branch of the human family tree, dramatically pushing back the accepted timeline of human evolution. Published in the journal Science this week, the study identified the fossil, known as "Yunxian 2," as an early member of the Homo longi (also known as "Dragon Man") clade and suggested that the split between early human lineages happened much earlier than previously thought.
Chinese scientists have newly proposed that surplus 40Ar in lunar soil possibly originates from the Earth wind, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Conducted by researchers at the NIEER, this latest study offers a new perspective for understanding volatile exchanges within the Earth-Moon system.
Clarivate Analytics on Thursday announced the 2025 Citation Laureates award, which recognized 22 scholars from eight countries. Chinese chemist Zhang Tao, from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the award in chemistry for his contributions to single-atom catalysis, becoming the first scientist from the Chinese mainland to receive the Citation Laureates award.
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