Dr. ZHANG Zhe's group from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified tryptamine as an endogenous sleep-promoting molecule, and found that tryptamine activates GPR139 neurons in the preoptic area, bridging waking neural activity and sleep onset.

Researchers from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology have recently developed a method to prepare the ionic state using multi-pulse operations in a linear ion trap, enabling the measurement of the ground-state hyperfine magnetically insensitive transition of beryllium ions.

In a new study focused on understanding the long-term cycling of volatile elements and compounds between Earth's interior and its surface, scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics have discovered that Earth has a balanced sulfur cycle, which sets it apart from Venus and Mars.

A research team led by Prof. LI Yunhai from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a direct molecular link between auxin signaling and seed size control in plants. They revealed how auxin signaling fine-tunes seed development in Arabidopsis, acting through a phosphorylation-based switch.

Researchers led by Prof. HE Sheng from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed that our brains constantly shift attention from one object or location to another, allowing us to efficiently explore the visual world, these shifts are accompanied by a brief suppression of visual processing.

A team of researchers led by FANG Cheng and MA Yinzhong from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered a key mechanism by which aging weakens the brain's vascular protection system.

A new study led by the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology has identified key gut bacterial strains and metabolic markers associated with aging and validated their potential functions, offering a fresh strategy for delaying aging and addressing age-related chronic diseases.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators investigated the growth resilience and recovery dynamics of four pine species widespread across Southeast Asia under extreme drought conditions. Their findings reveal that drought sensitivity and tree growth traits, rather than long-term climate averages, are the primary drivers of how these pines withstand and recover from severe dry spells.

A new study led by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences has visualized the spatiotemporal evolution of photogenerated holes in a facet-engineered bismuth vanadate photocatalyst using a home-built in-situ transient reflection microscope.

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have researched seven low-redshift analogs of the compact red sources known as Little Red Dots, providing new evidence that at least some LRD analogs host actively accreting black holes or active galactic nuclei.

A new study led by the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography has revealed the hydrological response of river runoff to glacier peak water in the Tarim River Basin—China's largest inland river system—in response to glacier peak water, forecasting that the basin will sustain robust and stable runoff levels for the remainder of this century.

A study conducted by MU Yu's team from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology and WU Si's team from Peking University, using brain-wide single-cell-resolution calcium imaging in larval zebrafish, closed-loop virtual-reality behavior, optogenetic manipulation, and neural computational modeling, revealed how the brain coordinates multiple computational modules to maintain recent experience and flexibly guide future decisions.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found that, although parasitic mistletoes are highly tolerant of drought-induced blockages in their water-conducting tissues, they are critically constrained by the hydraulic limits of their host trees. Since the two are tightly linked, an increase in a host's vulnerability to drought directly translates to a greater risk for its mistletoes. This can amplify water stress and make entire forest communities more fragile.

Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, have developed a robust feature selection method to improve interaction stiffness estimation for human-robot collaboration.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden have uncovered how large-scale railway construction can fundamentally alter soil properties and underground fungal networks, creating conditions that favor invasive alien plants over native species.

Scientists from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences have recently reconstructed the evolutionary timeline of cobamide biosynthesis, finding that partial biosynthetic pathways predate complete cobamide producers, and that anaerobic producers emerged before aerobic ones, which is consistent with Earth's shifting redox conditions.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Na from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences determined the first atomic-resolution structure of a RDQ formed between human telomeric DNA and a telomeric repeat-containing RNA (TERRA) RNA fragment.

Prof. LI's team and researchers from East China Normal University, Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Florence, demonstrated that FitCoal achieves both superior speed and accuracy in expected site frequency spectrum (SFS) estimation.