Scientists in China and Germany recently identified a novel compound in wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata leaves that confers broad resistance to Empoasca leafhopper pests. The research employed a multi-omics approach and was conducted by Prof. LI Dapeng from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with a research group from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology led by Prof. Ian T. Baldwin and Dr. BAI Yuechen.

GAO Caixia's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and QIU Jinlong's team from the Institute of Microbiology jointly developed a new wheat mutant, Tamlo-R32, which exhibits robust resistance to powdery mildew disease and does not display any growth or yield defects.

Researchers from the Institute of Geochemistry and their collaborators have found that the inner core of the Earth is not a normal solid but is composed of a solid iron sublattice and liquid-like light elements, which is also known as a superionic state.

The world's oceans are hotter than ever before, continuing their record-breaking temperature streak for the sixth straight year, according to a study by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and their collaborators.

Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics observed water signals in reflectance spectral data from the lunar surface acquired by the Chang'E-5 lander, providing the first evidence of in-situ detection of water on the Moon.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), an international team led by Dr. LI Di from National Astronomical Observatories has obtained accurate magnetic field strength in molecular cloud L1544 - a region of the interstellar medium that seems ready to form stars.