A press conference held on January 26 in Beijing unveiled the Top 10 news of S&T advances both in China and overseas for the year 2025 as selected by top scholars of China.
Every January, Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) cast their votes for the top 10 news of S&T advances for the previous year. Sponsored by CAS and CAE, this ballot has been held for 32 times, as an effort to celebrate science excellence and increase the public awareness of science.
The academicians chose the following as the top 10 news for S&T advances of China for the year 2025:
01. China’s “Artificial Sun” Sets New Record with 100-million-degree Plasma Sustaining over 1000 Seconds
02. DeepSeek Charts a Different Course
03. First Experimental Thorium Molten Salt Reactor Makes New Breakthrough in Future Advanced
Nuclear Technology of China
04. Liver Cancer Prognosis System Globally Accessible
05. “Beinao-1” Completes Full Wireless Implantation
06. Discovery of New Target & Drug Candidate for Parkinson’s
07. Emergence of Zuchongzhi-3, the Superconducting Quantum Computing Prototype
08. Dual Advances Propel Clean Hydrogen Production
09. “Black Soil Granary” Initiative Achieves Breakthrough
10. On-chip Photonics Enables Full-Spectrum Wireless for 6G
The academicians chose the following as the top 10 news of oversea S&T advances for the year 2025:
01. Brain-Computer Interface Enables Emotional Speech & Singing
02. “Electro-Photo-Quantum” Trinity Chip
03. Detection of the Most Massive Blackhole Binary to Date, Challenging Blackhole Formation Models
04. Discover of the Most Energetic Neutrinos to Date, 20 Times the Energy Previously Detected
05. The World’s First Visually Observable Time Crystal Created
06. Record Long Pig Kidney Survival in Human
07. Ground-Based Telescope Detects Cosmic Signals from 13 Billion Years Ago for the First Time
08. The Largest Cosmic Map to Date
09. Largest Brain Map Details Intricate Synapse-Level Architecture of Intelligence
10. DeepMind’s Gemini Wins the Gold at International Math Olympiad
Click the following links for detailed description of the winners:
Top 10 News for S&T Advances of China for the Year 2025
Top 10 News of Oversea S&T Advances for the Year 2025