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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 12-Dec-2025 13:11 ET (12-Dec-2025 18:11 GMT/UTC)

20-Nov-2025

JUNO experiment delivers first physics results two months after completion

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Reports and Proceedings

After more than a decade of design, construction, and international collaboration, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory has become the world's first next-generation, large-scale, high-precision neutrino detector to begin operation. The detector's key performance indicators fully meet or surpass design expectations, confirming that JUNO is ready to deliver frontier measurements in neutrino physics.

Journal

Chinese Physics C

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.