Chinese Academy of Sciences Launches 10-Project Frontier Science Program With AI-for-Science Push

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has launched a 10-project Scientific Frontier Extreme Breakthrough Plan, positioning AI-enabled research infrastructure at the center of China's next wave of basic-science bets. The first tranche targets problems including new element synthesis, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, microscopic measurement of chemical bonds and artificial synthetic cells, while changing evaluation rules so that researchers are not judged only by papers or short-term output.