A research team led by ZOU Liangjian from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has found that high pressure can turn the single-layer nickelate La₂NiO₄ from an insulator into a metal without destroying its magnetic order, and trontium (Sr) doping can change how the material's magnetic moments are arranged.

A research team from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with researchers from Shandong University and Anhui University, has discovered an unusual type of superconductivity in a layered material by combining organic intercalation with high pressure.

Researchers from the Center for Agricultural Resources Research at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences quantified spatiotemporal variations in water availability, irrigation water requirements, and the agricultural water scarcity index across Pakistan.

Researchers from the Center for Agricultural Resources Research at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a regional model to simulate water and solute transport in deep vadose zones.

A new study by researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has documented a persistent mismatch between the geographic focus of AI research and the global burden of infectious disease.

Researchers from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that bacteria and algae in glacier-fed stream biofilms exhibit contrasting spatial and temporal responses to environmental variability, highlighting the importance of studying biodiversity across biological domains.

A research team led by Prof. FU Zheng at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a previously overlooked role of wind in regulating ecosystem water-use efficiency.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is a core part of the Silk Road Economic Belt. Launched in 2021, the five-year Third Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to Xinjiang received 657 million yuan in funding. It covered 30 projects, over 6,400 fieldwork person-trips and 91,232 survey sites.

Researchers from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science and Fudan University have uncovered a mechanism by which persistent physical confinement triggers MLKL-mediated necroptosis in tumor cells, shedding light on how this pathway influences tumor evolution and metastasis.

A research team led by Profs. XU Guowang and LIU Xinyu from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has proposed a framework for "Third-generation metabolomics" that integrates standardization, streamlined workflow, automation, and intelligence.

A research team from the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter has developed a fluorine-engineered graphene electrocatalyst with precisely tailored sp²-C-F bonding, which enables highly reversible O₂-H₂O₂ interconversion and delivers outstanding performance in zinc-based batteries.

Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a novel strategy for the controllable fabrication of Turing-patterned polyamide nanofiltration membranes, using ion-track-etched membranes produced by heavy-ion irradiation and chemical etching.

A research team led by Profs. GAO Caixia and CHEN Yuhang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology developed a "dual-layer" allele engineering strategy, which coordinates structure-guided protein design with precise cis-regulatory tuning, to generate rice and wheat with improved herbicide tolerance.

Researchers from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science have uncovered a new mechanism by which tandem RNA-binding domains cooperate to regulate PKR activation, offering insights into innate immune responses and potential therapeutic targets.

Groundwater pumping reduction and water diversion together accounted for 76% of groundwater recovery in the southern Hebei Plain, while increased precipitation contributed 24%, according to a study led by researchers from the Center for Agricultural Resources Research at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology.

Researchers from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research have found that croplands reclaimed from wetlands bring limited gains to global crop production while facing substantially higher flood exposure, highlighting the trade-offs between agricultural gains and ecological costs.

Researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics have developed a design for a programmable metasurface that uses projected light to switch diffraction channels and polarization states. In simulations, its best single-channel modes achieved diffraction efficiencies of about 45%, with polarization fidelity above 0.99.

A new neural network, developed by researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, designed to align event-camera data with conventional RGB images, improves semantic segmentation on two public benchmarks. It outperforms MambaSeg on both datasets, achieving the largest improvement of 2.26 percentage points in mean intersection over union.