Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has always been arid, a challenge to sustainable development. But water is getting scarcer.

The loss of China's first interplanetary probe, attached to an ill-fated Russian spacecraft, has cost scientists the chance to conduct breakthrough research on Mars, a top scientist said. New objectives must now be considered for a Mars explorat...

While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing countries in Asia and Africa.

A research team out of the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-IPE) has created the first-ever computational model of the H1N1 virus at the atomic level.

Following are the world's top 10 science and technology achievements in 2011 unveiled Tuesday, as chosen by academicians with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering

Mole-8.5 supercomputer developed by the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPE-CAS) was on the top 10 list according to the latest Green 500 released on Nov. 18.