A media sting found visitors could buy their way past security checkpoints into the protected core of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, with a hotel inside selling rooms bundled with 'close-up' viewing slots.
Physicists at Tsinghua University have run a clock driven by the nucleus of thorium-229, not its electrons, pushing precision measurement into new territory. The result, published in Nature, was achieved alongside a European team.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics honors Francis Halzen for turning a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into IceCube, a detector that caught high-energy neutrinos from deep space.
Venus has almost no magnetic field and sits closer to the Sun than Earth, yet its atmosphere is far denser. Scientists say the answer lies in mass, gravity and a slow, steady escape — not a magnetic shield.
A joint Chinese-European spacecraft called SMILE has passed its in-orbit tests and begun full science operations, releasing its first images of how the solar wind collides with Earth's magnetic field. Several results are described as world firsts.
China and other nations want to scrap leap seconds by 2035, years earlier than planned, because melting polar ice is quietly changing how fast Earth spins. The tiny timekeeping tweak has an outsized history of software glitches and internet headaches.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched a new program funding ten projects that chase the hardest edges of physics, chemistry and biology — from making new elements to synthesizing artificial cells.
A Chinese scientist leading the Tianwen-3 Mars mission says a new full-Mars geological map, due by late 2028, will propose a Chinese scheme for dividing Martian geological eras. Findings from the Zhurong rover will feed into it.
By pairing the FAST radio telescope with a US dark-energy survey, an international team found that galaxies are not running out of star-forming gas — they are losing the ability to turn it into stars.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, people photograph the full moon and wonder why it looks like a tiny glowing dot. Scientists say it comes down to how cameras, eyes and brains process the same light very differently.
Permanently crewed by rotating teams of three taikonauts, the Tiangong station hosts hundreds of experiments — and is opening its modules to payloads from around the world.
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