The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. /CFPScientists have identified over 740pulsars since October 2017 with the help of the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), also dubbed as the "Chi

Chinese scientists have successfully implemented a new way of quantum key distribution (QKD) which can boost the speed of intercity quantum networks.Quantum network is known for its strong resistance against eavesdropping – theoretically, it's completely hacker-free. Data transferred thro

China's latest high-energy synchrotron radiation light source facility, the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), on Wednesday installed its first pre-aligned unit inside the storage ring tunnel, kicking off the comprehensive construction of the HEPS accelerator.A crucial part of the light source fo

CHINA DAILYCompletion of Tiangong orbital hub highlight of busy yearChina's space industry had a busy year in 2022, the highlight of which was completion of one of the world's largest and most sophisticated orbiting infrastructures, the Tiangong space station.After traveling for

This simulated image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov 30, 2022 shows China's Shenzhou XV manned spaceship having conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space station Tiangong. [Photo/Xinhua]China on Thursday unveiled a list of the coun

"Eye on the sky" probes the universeThe Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope made several discoveries that challenged conventional understanding of the universe. They included a new type of repeating fast radio burst — extremely brief but bright flashes in the sky — and

China leads the world in four out of 11 frontier areas of academic research, with major improvements to clinical medicine, astronomy and astrophysics in the past five years, according to the annual report released on Tuesday by the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Scie

This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2022 shows a soil testing robot in the Dahewan Demonstration Zone in Hulun Buir City of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.(Xinhua/Zou Jianpu)An unmanned tractor shuttles back and forth, harrowing a field where soybeans were just harves

China launches a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, Oct 29, 2022. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Saturday morning to transport an experimental satellite into space, accor

The "China Sky Eye," also known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, has spotted a huge atomic gas structure in the vicinity of a galaxy group. [Photo/National Astronomical Observatories]China's ultra-powerful telescope has discovered the largest atomic c