A study by the South China Botanical Garden reports the first discovery and photographic documentation of a species of the family Glomeridae (order Glomerida) during biodiversity surveys and monitoring in Dinghushan National Nature Reserve in South China's Guangdong province.

A study led by LEI Xiaohua's team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered how chronic, extremely low-dose ionizing radiation—simulating deep-space conditions—harms early embryonic development in mice, and proposed a dual-target intervention strategy.

Researchers from the Institute of Metal Research have developed a versatile compatibilizing-solvent plasticization strategy that resolves the longstanding incompatibility between electrochemically stable plasticizers and polymer matrices, paving the way for practical high-energy, high-safety solid-state lithium metal batteries.

For the first time, chinese scientists observed a nodeless superconducting gap and discovered electron-boson coupling by measuring the electronic structures of Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelate superconducting thin films. These findings provide crucial evidence for two fundamental issues in the mechanism of high-temperature nickelates: "superconducting gap symmetry" and "superconducting pairing mechanism."

A study led by the Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering reports a protist-dominated hard-substrate fauna across seven hadal regions around Oceania that comprises 32 species across six phyla, most new to science, which include a new monothalamous foraminiferal family (Plumettidae) and a new bryozoan family (Pierrellidae).

The teams of Prof. LI Hongju and Prof. YANG Weicai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered key molecular mechanisms underlying gamete adhesion and fusion in flowering plants, and reported a new technology in haploid induction with higher efficiency.

A UNESCO report released on April 21 delivers the first global assessment of over 2,260 World Heritage sites, Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks, finding that more than one in four sites could reach critical ecological tipping points by 2050 if pressures intensify.

A research team led by the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that in vitro biological neuronal networks can achieve both low-power consumption and high-speed communication through predictable electrical stimulation, providing a promising new route for next-generation brain-inspired computing systems.

A team of Chinese scientists from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering has developed a new passivation strategy that significantly improves both the efficiency and operational stability of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.

A study led by PhD student LI Ming and Dr. WU Xue from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered a mechanism through which intense storms over the Himalayas contribute to increasing moisture in the lower stratosphere—a layer of the atmosphere crucial to global climate regulation.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden introduced the first validated scale to measure "naturalist identity," offering new insight into how how this identity can inspire meaningful action to conserve biodiversity.

Researchers from Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory discovered three new HADS: TIC 408074920, TIC 189714989, and TIC 34137913. All three stars show dominant radial pulsations with rich harmonic structures and lie within the classical instability strip, with masses ranging from 1.5 to 1.8 solar masses.

A research team led by Prof. WU Haichen from the Institute of Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), and Prof. LIU Lei from Xihua University, developed an innovative nanopore probe that enables the real-time, multiplexed, and label-free monitoring of biomolecules within single living cells.

A study by the South China Botanical Garden has provided the first evidence that tropical plants can adapt to long-term high nitrogen (N) deposition by up-regulating root exudation, revising the traditional view that N deposition reduces belowground carbon allocation.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, developed the acoustically readable microneedle patch (ARMPatch), a wearable, enzyme-free glucose monitor built entirely from glucose-responsive hydrogel microneedles.

Prof. CAI Yunpeng's team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a mathematical framework named CAML, which efficiently maps the decision rules of black-box AI models into a low-dimensional manifold that friendly visualizes knowledge to human experts.

A research team from the Institute of Chemistry, in collaboration with researchers in Singapore, has proposed a strategy for printing multiscale optical metamaterials and developed a roll-to-roll additive nanoprinting manufacturing system. This system overcomes the long-standing dilemma of balancing cost, customization, and mass production in the field of optical metamaterials.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden revealed how two dominant pine species in Southwest China responded to the extreme drought of 2023. Their findings reveal that forest dieback is not uniform but is instead shaped by species-specific vulnerabilities and local environmental conditions.