Researchers led by Prof. WANG Xiaohui from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed that natural hallucinogens may have primarily evolved as ecological tools that help organisms survive, defend themselves, and interact with other species.

A team of researchers led by SU Bing from the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, built the first three-dimensional, single-cell atlas of an entire lamprey brain, which is essentially a high-resolution map showing the location of every cell and which genes are active in each cell.

Researchers from Yunnan University and the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden examined how tropical forests respond ecologically to drought. Their results reveal that, while abundant sunlight typically boosts tree growth in normal times, it can become a critical liability during severe drought, especially for large, canopy-dominant trees.

A recent industry perspective article has summarized the long-term experience and recent advances in both fundamental research and industrial application of vanadium flow batteries (VFBs), while charting pathways toward hundred-megawatt-scale long-duration energy storage systems.

Researchers have recently uncovered the dynamic evolution of metal surface nanostructures induced by gas-solid interactions. At the atomic scale, van der Waals interactions between water molecules and surface Au atoms can drive the rapid migration, coalescence, and ripening of Au nanoislands on Au(111) in water vapor.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Fengxiang from Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with international collaborators, proposed an improved reinforcement learning framework to automatically optimize the cost function weighting factors in multi-objective FCS-MPC for permanent magnet synchronous motor drives.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Hongzhi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an auxiliary diagnostic strategy for lung cancer-associated pleural effusion based on volatile metabolites in pleural effusion.

A new study by researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that vegetation in China's forest-grassland ecotone responds differently to climate change from spring to autumn. This highlights the region's value as an early indicator of broader ecological change.

Researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an innovative method to tackle the complex origins of organic carbon in saltmarshes and other wetland ecosystems, where traditional tracing approaches often yield only broad source separation.

A recent study found that though small water bodies cover just 6% of the global inland water surface area, they are responsible for 15% of carbon dioxide emissions and 28% of methane emissions from inland waters—a disproportionate impact driven largely by agricultural nutrient inputs and land-use intensity.

Researchers from the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhejiang University School of Medicine constructed the first high-resolution map of ERFSs in hESCs, and addressed why CNVs and SNVs recurrently accumulate at specific genomic regions during prolonged hESC culture.

A team of researchers led by Prof. LIU Xiaojuan from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that as forests age, neighbourhood tree diversity increasingly alleviates competitive pressure on tree growth by enhancing niche differentiation among neighbouring trees.

A research group led by Prof. LIN Zheshuai from TIPC successfully designed and grew isotropic optical crystals that exhibit a wide zero-thermal-expansion temperature window by introducing a "fractional occupancy and flexible regulation" strategy.

Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenzhen University have developed a new three-dimensional (3D) photothermal structure that greatly improves solar evaporation efficiency.

A team led by Prof. ZHENG Guolin from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences realized a superconducting diode effect in a device that preserves time-reversal symmetry in NbSe₂ homojunctions under zero magnetic field.

A team led by Prof. GUAN Min from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, revealed a novel liver-MAT-cartilage axis that promotes cartilage degeneration in osteoarthritis through the complement C3-CFD-MAC cascade, and demonstrated that targeting ESRRA in adipocytes interrupts this pathological crosstalk and alleviates osteoarthritis progression.

A research team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed xylem adaptation of desert shrubs to both drought and freeze-thaw stress, finding that shrub species with vestured pits exhibit both higher hydraulic efficiency and stronger resistance to drought-induced embolism, while more vulnerable to freezing-induced embolism.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden have identified two new polysaccharides in Spatholobus uniauritus, a medicinal vine traditionally used in southwestern China. These compounds demonstrated promising hypoglycemic and immunomodulatory effects, providing a scientific basis for developing them into functional ingredients for diabetes management and immune support.