The achievements and discoveries in science and technology have not only profoundly reshaped how we live but alsogiven us the confidence to confront challenges and embrace the future. Science and Technology Daily, in collaboration witha panel of media partners and academicians, has selected the 2025 top 10 science and technology news stories from Chinaand around the world.

Top 10 Sci-tech News in China

1.The open-source AI model DeepSeek- R1 showed top- tierperformance even under limitedcomputational power.

2. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) device set a world record by maintaining a stable, long-pulse and highconfinement plasma at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds. 

3. Superconducting quantum computer prototype Zuchongzhi 3.0 has solved the quantum random circuit sampling problem 10 trillion timesfaster than current supercomputers. 

4. A high- precision, scalable analog matrixcomputing chip has been manufactured that outperforms current digital processors in energy efficiency and throughput by up to 1,000 times. 

5. China's first invasive brain-computer interface clinical trial was successfully conducted, making it the second country after the U.S. toreach the clinical trial phase for invasive brain machine interfaces. 

6. Research on the Chang'e-6 mission's lunarsamples revealed the history of the moon's farside, significantly advancing our understandingof the moon. 

7. The long- standing plant science puzzle ofhow a single plant cell develops into a completeplant was solved, which offers new possibilitiesfor genetic improvement of crops and agriculturalbiotechnology. 

8. Large- area two- dimensional metal materials were developed for the first time, opening newpossibilities in two-dimensional material researchand technological innovation. 

9. The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five- Year Plan for NationalEconomic and Social Development has provideda strategic roadmap for China's developmentfrom 2026 to 2030, underscoring the pivotalrole of sci- tech innovation as a core driver ofprogress. 

10. China's first electromagnetic aircraft carrier "Fujian" was commissioned.

Top 10 Sci-tech News Globally

1. Chinese start- up DeepSeek's promotion of open-source development, with its R1 model enhancing reasoning in large language models through reinforcement learning.

2. The creation of an AI-based tool combinedwith a brain decoder that can translate a person'sthoughts directly into continuous text, without requiring them to speak or process spoken language.

3. Researchers designed enzymes fromscratch, using RFdiffusion to generate proteinsand a machine learning network called PLACER toevaluate their active site organization. 

4. Photonic computing chips outperformedtraditional electronic hardware — for example, aSingaporean system achieved over two- orders- ofmagnitude improvements in latency and computation time with oMAC compared to commercialGPUs. 

5. The NSF- DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatoryreleased its first images, capturing images of millions of distant stars and galaxies on an unprecedented scale. 

6. An intelligent surgical robot successfullyremoved a gallbladder without human assistance. 

7. Google introduced the Quantum Echoes algorithm that demonstrates a verifiable quantumadvantage over classical computers. 

8. Stephen Hawking's area theorem, proposed in 1971, was confirmed with very high precision by the gravitational wave GW250114. 

9. The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, released by 160 international scientists, warns thatEarth has reached its first climate tipping point, with rising temperatures threatening coral reefs. 

10. Scientists released the first atlas of cross-species mammalian brain cell development, providing the most detailed spatiotemporal map ofbrain development to date.