Microbial carbon limitation plays a key role in shaping the blue carbon outcomes of mangrove restoration, according to a new study led by the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

An eight-year nitrogen addition experiment carried out by the South China Botanical Garden found that nitrogen treatment hardly affected traits of the high understory, yet altered leaf growth and defense traits with strong intraspecific variation in the low layer, making intraspecific trait variation a vital indicator for monitoring forest responses to nitrogen deposition.

Researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Hong from the Institute of Biophysics have identified two parallel neuronal circuits that regulate the autophagy-lysosome pathway in the body wall muscle of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny nematode worm. Their research has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the worm’s nervous system maintains muscle homeostasis.

A new study led by the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted high-sensitivity observations of pulsar B0751+32 and captured the time-variable nature of its periodic nulling, revealing that the nulling period varies significantly between different observing epochs and even evolves within a single session.

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a study on G35.28+0.04, a giant ring-like molecular gas structure in the Milky Way and found that this structure may record a "relay race" of star formation that has lasted for tens of millions of years.

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences collected and analyzed over 10,000 single pulses, confirming that a single pulsar can host three unique emission behaviors at the same time.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Chunyang from Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified the atomistic origin of structural failure in lithium cobalt oxide cathodes operating under extreme 5 V charging conditions.

Researchers from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology), and the Shanghai Institute of Materia and Medica, revealed that environmental allergens can activate gasdermin D (GSDMD) in airway epithelial cells through a iron-dependent mechanism, thereby promoting IL-33 release and initiating allergic airway inflammation.

The researchers conducted a study of the nearby dwarf galaxy merger system SDSS J101747.09+393207.7 and detected a milliarcsecond-scale, compact non-thermal radio component, which provided new clues for understanding how galaxy mergers trigger black hole accretion and black hole mass growth.

Researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have developed a solar-driven photocatalytic system that efficiently removes hydrazine from wastewater and generates hydrogen simultaneously.

Researchers led by Prof. SHENG Hua from the Institute of Chemistry have developed a new strategy for solar-driven in situ water remediation. They designed a dynamic heterogeneous–homogeneous photocatalytic system by constructing a photoresponsive copper anchoring interface on UiO-66-NH₂ metal–organic frameworks, overcoming a key limitation of conventional photocatalysis—its relatively low efficiency in generating reactive oxygen species, particularly in complex natural water environments.

A research team led by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a wavelength-dependent photo-driven pathway for ammonia synthesis over lithium hydride (LiH), enabling the decoupling of two long-standing conflicting reaction steps in thermal catalysis.

A research team led by Prof. LIU Yuan and Prof. JING Ji from the Hangzhou Institute of Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. DAI Yunlu from the University of Macau, have developed nanozyme proximity labeling (NPL), a genetic-engineering-free strategy to map the in situ interactomes and trafficking pathways of nanoparticles in live cells.

A team led by Prof. ZHANG Haijiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated that oceanic transform faults are dynamic systems governed by fluids, tides, and magmatism.

A research team led by Prof. YUAN Xing from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered a critical indirect impact from atmospheric feedbacks which substantially limits the water-saving potential of vegetation under elevated CO₂.

A team of scientists at the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has confirmed that the TIC 197757000 binary is tidally synchronized, which offers fresh insights into how tidal locking shapes pulsations in close binaries.

A recent study has challenged the long-standing canonical paradigm in astronomy that gravity dominates the small-scale structural evolution of molecular clouds. It reveals that turbulence may act as the primary driver governing gas kinematics and structural evolution even within sub-parsec supercritical gas filaments adjacent to nascent stars.

A recent study revealed that the heterophyllous plant Hygrophila difformis develops high physiological plasticity in its carbon-concentrating mechanisms to cope with both land and water environments, shedding light on how aquatic plants switch and regulate carbon assimilation between C₃ and C₄‑like pathways.