Deep-sea cold seeps are key channels for seafloor methane, but quantifying their emissions has been challenging, creating uncertainties in the global ocean methane budget. To fill this knowledge gap, a research team from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has found that methane emissions from South China Sea cold seeps far exceed previous estimates, providing important scientific evidence for the accounting of oceanic greenhouse gas sources and sinks.

Through studying the observation data of China's gigantic radio telescope located in the country's southwestern Guizhou Province, an international research team has uncovered compelling new evidence supporting a binary-system origin for at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most enigmatic phenomena in modern astrophysics.

A new international analysis has found that the world's oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since the start of modern measurements. The 2025 heat gain totalled 23 zetta joules—equivalent to roughly 37 years of global primary energy consumption at 2023 levels, when the world used about 620 exajoules annually.

Recently, the research team from the Joint Laboratory for High-Power Laser Physics at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, has made a significant breakthrough in the field of ultrafast spatiotemporal light field measurement. The team developed a Spatiotemporal Wavefront Sensor, achieving for the first time single-shot, self-referenced three-dimensional optical field characterization of spatiotemporal wave packets.

Recently, the research team from Shenguang Ⅱ Laser facility at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has realized ultra-flat wavefront sensing and measurement based on photon sieve self-interference technology, addressing the challenge of interferometric measurement for weakly distorted wavefronts.

Researchers working on China' s fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized "density-free regime" for fusion plasmas, achieving stable operation at densities well beyond conventional limits.

A research team from the Kunming Institute of Zoology has demonstrated for the first time in non-human primates that auditory stimulation at 40-Hz significantly elevates β-amyloid levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of aged rhesus monkeys, with this effect persisting for over five weeks.

A research group led by Prof. SHENG Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered mirror symmetry triggered chiral phonon behavior and a giant magneto-optical modulation in the two-dimensional material AgCrP₂S₆ with space- and time-symmetries.

​A joint research team from the National Time Service Center(NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and  Geography CAS, Shandong University of Science and Technology, and Hohai  University successfully achieved centimeter-level water level monitoring  of the Kalabuli Reservoir in Xinjiang using Global Navigation Satellite  System Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) technology.