Associate Prof. MA Junye from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), and his collaborators found that Berenicea, a genus of cyclostome bryozoans, has experienced a continuous reduction in zooid size over the past 200 million years. This trend runs directly counter to Cope's Rule.

A research team led by Prof. LIU Lei from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reconstructed and analyzed a global farm size dataset spanning 1970 to 2020. The study revealed key historical shifts in farm size and projected future trajectories.

Prof. ZHANG Yuanming's team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography have unveiled a previously underestimated factor in greenhouse gas emissions from arid environments: hydroxyl radicals, often dubbed "free radicals".

A new literature review by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography has unveiled the significant potential of Strigolactones as plant root hormones for boosting crop resilience and productivity under stressful environments. This work offers a promising, sustainable pathway to develop stress-resistant crop cultivars and novel agrochemicals for sustainable crop production under challenging conditions.

Researchers from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have now unveiled the molecular mechanisms that underlie L1's retrotransposition and integration into genomic DNA.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Yunfeng from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the neural encoding mechanisms that enable mice to use their olfactory system to assess prey nutritional status and make precise foraging decisions at the molecular, cellular, and neural circuit levels.

A research team led by Prof. YANG Yuanhe from the Institute of Botany has reported that abrupt permafrost thaw accelerates soil phosphorus cycling, with potential consequences for plant primary productivity and carbon sequestration in permafrost ecosystems.

Using high-resolution data from the one-meter New Vacuum Solar Telescope, a research team led by Prof. YAN Xiaoli from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has conducted an in-depth study on the physical properties and oscillations of chromospheric fibrils surrounding a quiescent filament.

Dr. LU Ming's group from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, in collaboration with researchers from Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, has now identified a key acetate source by revealing how hepatocellular carcinoma cells trigger acetate secretion by tumor-associated macrophages through a metabolic interaction involving lactate and the lipid peroxidation–aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 pathway.

A team led by Dr. WANG Jiahong from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an artificial sensory neuron based on a vanadium carbide/oxide heterostructure via topochemical conversion, enabling multi-color near-infrared response and high-precision object recognition in complex scenarios.

A recent literature review has shed new light on hydrogen peroxide as a powerful tool for enhancing crop resilience against climate-driven abiotic stresses, offering a promising pathway to enhance crop resilience without genetic modification.

A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory has used the Tianma Radio Telescope to conduct multi-band radio observations of the returning comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. They measured its water production rate during outburst activities and made the most distant detection of ammonia molecules in a Halley-type comet to date.

A team led by Prof. BI Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology of China/Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, along with collaborators, delineated the intricate choreography of synaptic vesicle (SV) release and rapid recycling by using a self-developed, time-resolved cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) method, and identified a "kiss-shrink-run" pathway.

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory conducted a systematic study of the filamentary structure within the G53 molecular cloud. By combining multi-wavelength observations and simulations, they revealed for the first time that the filament is undergoing an "end-dominated collapse", a process that is driving star formation.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators demonstrated how fruit resources directly shape the distribution of fruit-eating animals (frugivores) in a tropical rainforest by using airborne environmental DNA (airborne eDNA) technology.

Scientists from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a new member of the Crassulaceae family, Sinocrassula cuonaensis, in Cuona County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have revealed the complete three-dimensional (3D) ultrastructure of xylem vessel pits in rice and identified a critical regulatory module, MYB61-PS1, that shapes the 3D structure of pits in rice.

A new study led by Prof. CHEN Yaning from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography has shed new light on the ecological health of Asian drylands, revealing a complex and at times contradictory picture of degradation and recovery.