A new study introduces an artificial intelligence-driven remote sensing framework designed to map the potential for forage cultivation across northern China's drylands, with a particular focus on the middle reaches of the Yellow River. The study identifies optimal forage-growing belts at the kilometer scale, delivering data and decision-ready tools to underpin ecological protection, sustainable agricultural practices, and national feed and food security.

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, has found that long-term orbital variations occurring over million-year timescales may have served as the "pacemaker" for Earth’s ancient oxygenation pulses.

A new study led by Profs. YAO Yijun and LUO Yongming from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the steady acidification of China's cropland soils, which began in the 1980s, stabilized around 2013.

A research team from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology has made significant progress in precisely measuring the vibrational-rotational spectra of hydrogen molecular ions (HD⁺).

A research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with collaborators, has conducted whole-rock copper isotope analysis on 13 shergottite and two nakhlite samples.

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Jilin University, and the collaborators, discovered that 326E (also known as BGT-002), an enedioic acid analogue they developed, targets both ATP-citrate lyase (ACLY) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPARα) to restore hepatic lipid balance and alleviate MASH pathology.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Jianing from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, analyzed five consecutive years of mooring data collected at the equator (142°E). Their analysis uncovered significant intraseasonal kinetic energy in the deep ocean, which is primarily concentrated in the 40–90-day period and dominated by meridional currents.

A research team led by Prof. JIANG Minqiang from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a unified theory of phonon in solids to show when the Debye model breaks down as Van Hove singularities in crystals, the boson peaks in glasses, or their coexistence.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. XU Yigang and Prof. LIN Mang from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified seven olivine-bearing clasts from two grams of lunar regolith returned by the Chang’e-6 mission.

A new study from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that plasticine models may not capture the full ecological story of biotic interactions.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Peng from the Institute of Biophysics has revealed the critical role of human subcortical nuclei in spatially global feature-based attention by using high-resolution 7-Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Peng from the Institute of Biophysics has uncovered the cortical microcircuit mechanisms underlying the human bottom-up attentional saliency map using vascular space occupancy (VASO)-based laminar functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with ultra-high spatial specificity at 7 Tesla.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied over 120 insect-pollinated plant species in a meadow near Shangri-La county. The team documented nearly 7,000 flower visits, measured traits of 93 plant species and 258 pollinator species, and built pollination networks for bees, flies, and the entire ecological community.

A new study reveals that variations in terrestrial surface wind speed exert a substantial influence on global vegetation productivity, reshaping how land ecosystems absorb and store carbon.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology and City University of Hong Kong developed a universal in-situ cross-linking conformational reinforcement strategy for self-assembled monolayer molecules, effectively addressing operational stability issues caused by buried interface degradation in high-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells.

An international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has demonstrated that applying pixelized strong-lensing modeling on a galaxy cluster scale can significantly improve the precision of the inferred Hubble constant—a key parameter that describes the expansion rate of the universe.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Kunming Institute of Botany reconstructed the phylogenetic tree of the Apocynaceae family, and sought to resolve the issue of uncertainties in the classification and evolutionary history of this ecologically and economically important plant family.

A new study led by Prof. XIAO Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered a rapid, two-phase uplift of the West Kunlun Range between 11 and 6 million years ago.