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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 19-Nov-2025 21:15 ET (20-Nov-2025 02:15 GMT/UTC)

18-Nov-2025

"Ice-fire" forge crafts wafer-scale energy storage capacitors in just one second

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. HU Weijin from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with partners, has developed a one-second fabrication method for wafer-scale energy storage capacitors that achieves astonishing heating and cooling rates of up to 1,000 °C per second. 

Journal

Science Advances

16-Nov-2025

LHAASO uncovers mystery of cosmic ray "knee" formation

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a decades-old mystery about the cosmic ray energy spectrum—which shows a sharp decrease in cosmic rays above 3 PeV, giving it an unusual knee-like shape.

Journal

Science Bulletin

14-Nov-2025

Chang'e-6 samples reveal first evidence of impact-formed hematite and maghemite on the Moon

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A joint research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) and Shandong University has for the first time identified crystalline hematite (α-Fe₂O₃) and maghemite (γ-Fe₂O₃) formed by a major impact event in lunar soil samples retrieved by China's Chang'e-6 mission from the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) Basin. 

Journal

Science Advances

14-Nov-2025

Researchers identify mangrove tree stems as previously underestimated methane source offsetting blue carbon benefits

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a new study, researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a global-scale assessment of methane emissions from mangrove tree stems. They also developed a comprehensive database of these emissions to date. 

Journal

Nature Geoscience

12-Nov-2025

New study reveals microbial network restructuring mitigates long-term soil carbon emissions from warming

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. LIU Juxiu at the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has conducted a decade-long study that uncovered a previously unrecognized buffering mechanism in subtropical forest soils mitigating the effects of climate warming.

Journal

Science Advances

11-Nov-2025

Grassland degradation reshapes relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Grassland degradation fundamentally reshapes how biodiversity supports ecosystem multifunctionality, shifting it from being plant-dominated to being mediated by soil microbes, according to a new study led by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS).

Journal

Nature Plants

6-Nov-2025

Researchers discover latitude- and regolith-dependent distribution of lunar surface water

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has found that lunar soil samples brought back by China's Chang'e-6 mission (collected from the lunar farside) contain high concentrations of OH/H₂O and low deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratios. These characteristics align with lunar water originating from the solar wind, the team noted.

Journal

Nature Geoscience

5-Nov-2025

New study reveals southern ocean’s winter CO₂ outgassing underestimated by 40%

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A collaborative research team has discovered that the Southern Ocean releases substantially more carbon dioxide (CO₂) during the dark austral winter than previously thought. Their new study reveals that this winter outgassing has been underestimated by up to 40%.

Journal

Science Advances

2-Nov-2025

China's high intensity heavy-ion accelerator facility completes beam commissioning

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Business Announcement

The High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) of  the Institute of Modern Physics, one of China's major scientific and technological infrastructure projects, successfully completed commissioning with beam on October 28, marking a crucial milestone in its construction.

30-Oct-2025

Researchers identify rare lost allele boosting soybean seed protein

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. HOU Xingliang from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has used genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify a rare allele that controls seed protein content and was lost during soybean domestication.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences