A research group led by Prof. LI Yan from the Institute of Biophysics has uncovered the neural circuit that links the internal central clock to rhythmic foraging, offering original insights into how circadian timing shapes c.

Researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, together with their collaborators, uncovered the molecular innovation that led to the origin of Type V CRISPR-Cas immune systems.

Prof. ZHANG Teng and Prof. CAO Rong from the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, synthesized a series of homometallic and heterometallic complexes, revealed their eCO₂RR performance, and elucidated the regulatory effect of heterometallic sites in eCO₂RR performance.

A research team led by Prof. KOU Liang from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with international collaborators, has revealed that due to their fast turnover and slow decomposition, absorptive roots' iterative effects generate 2.4 ± 0.1 megagrams of carbon per hectare in soil over two decades—surpassing the carbon contribution of leaves by 65%.

A new study​ has revealed the patterns of trait covariation across global grassland species, highlighting that the trait coordination and trade-off of global grasslands, the largest terrestrial ecosystems globally, and pinpointed the climate variables that drive these patterns.

A team led by LI Yunlong from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Anhui University, proposed an alternating current bias capacitance readout strategy for metal halide perovskite-based X-ray detectors, overcoming the challenge of intrinsic ion migration in current readout schemes.

A team led by Prof. LIANG Xingjie from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed site-specific adaptive milk-derived nanovesicles (MiNVs) which survive the gastrointestinal environment, cross the intestinal epithelium, and release insulin specifically in the liver, enabling efficient oral insulin delivery.

A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible link to the mysterious Denisovans.

A team led by Prof. JIN Fan from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, revealed the fundamental physical principles underlying bacterial frequency modulation signal processing, and demonstrated that frequency modulation decoding mechanisms enable bacteria to increase information entropy by approximately 2 bits.

A research team led by Prof. CHEN Chang from the Institute of Biophysics has uncovered a previously unknown role for the mitochondrial protein ATAD3A in regulating redox homeostasis, offering new insights into aging and disease intervention strategies.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Freie Universität Berlin showed that dance-following bees combine the dance vector with their cognitive memory of landmarks, and the follower bees form an expectation of the landscape features after learning the information of waggle dances.

Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and bats—has long fascinated biologists. Now, a research team led by Prof. ZOU Zhengting from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced a deep learning-based method to unravel the complex molecular mechanisms driving this phenomenon.

A research team has developed a nanocomposite-modified microelectrode array (MEA) that enables long-term, high-sensitivity monitoring of neuronal activity during hibernation. The study, led by Prof. CAI Xinxia from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, sheds light on how specific brain cells sustain life under extremely low metabolic states.

As global temperatures rise, thermal expansion of oceans and melting ice sheets are driving up sea levels worldwide. In many coastal areas, land subsidence further exacerbates flood risks. However, a new study reveals that in China, policy decisions on where and how to develop coastal land may have a more significant impact on future flooding than climate change itself.

A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line characteristics in galactic centers.

Prof. WU Mingyan's group from the Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a bottom-up, self-assembly approach to synthesize a novel pillar-cage fluorinated hybrid porous framework, which exhibits a rare crystalline quasi-Johnson solid J₂₈ structure.

During the course of evolution, the mammalian cranio-mandibular secondary joint—formed by the dentary condyle and the squamosal glenoid fossa, which replaced the reptilian articular–quadrate joint—represents an innovative structure in vertebrate evolution. By CT-scanning two classic fossils, Chinese researchers found previously unknown jaw joints and proposed a clear, four-step sequence showing how chewing and hearing functions were gradually split between jaw and ear.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences directly compared how neighbor density influences seedling survival in trees and lianas, and found that lianas experience much stronger conspecific negative density dependence than trees during the early seedling stages.