A comprehensive review conducted by at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS) provides a systematic roadmap for integrating machine learning into functional ceramics research, covering over 200 representative models and outlining the future of AI-driven materials discovery.

Chinese scientists have developed a new strategy to enhance scintillation light output in zero-dimensional halides by manipulating exciton confinement, achieving a 460% increase in scintillation yield and enabling high-resolution radiation imaging at both room and elevated temperatures.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators revealed that mangroves enhance hydraulic safety (rather than efficiency) through reinforced anatomical structures and pit architecture to adapt to saline environments. They built narrower, stronger vessels and adjust their microscopic pit structures to prevent fatal embolisms under extreme saline and dry conditions.

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Riverside, have reported pronounced spatial heterogeneity in forest soil nitrogen emissions across hillslopes, revealing that topography-mediated soil moisture gradients play a key role in regulating gaseous nitrogen losses from forest soils.

Long-term nitrogen addition can make young and mature trees more vulnerable to drought, but through different physiological routes, according to a study led by Professor YAN Tao from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a fermentation process that simultaneously enhances biohydrogen production and sequesters carbon dioxide within a single system.

A large research consortium, the Aging Biomarker Consortium (ABC), has built a comprehensive "digital aging twin" framework. It can predict a person's biological age, track how individual organs age at different rates, and identify a key driver of age-related decline—coagulation factors accumulating in the blood.

To better understand how environmental conditions may have shaped the development of millet agriculture, researchers from the Institute of Earth Environment and their collaborators in and aboard China investigated loess deposits from the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP).

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators have shown that the interplay between seed dormancy and dispersal syndromes shapes seed dispersal distance and species range size in climate-specific ways.

A hidden "visual error" has long undermined the accuracy of water quality assessment based on Landsat satellite imagery. A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology (NIGLAS), Chinese Academy of Sciences has analyzed over 1,000 sets of global field measurements and identified the root causes of the inaccuracies. By recommending the ready-to-use MAIN algorithm, the research provides a quality-control benchmark and an efficient tool for the scientific community.

Scientists have recently released Influ-BERT, a genomic language model tailored for influenza viruses. Based on the Transformer architecture, the model has been deeply optimized for the genomic characteristics of influenza viruses, providing an efficient and intelligent computational solution for applications such as influenza virus subtype identification and pathogenicity prediction.

A research team from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently released long-term radio observational data on gamma-ray-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs)—among the most extreme and energetic galaxies in the universe. This study offers a unique insight into the behavior of these cosmic powerhouses, shedding light on how black holes influence their environments across the cosmos.

A research team at the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGCAS) has discovered a universal mechanism governing volatile alkali behavior during lunar impact events. By analyzing impact glass beads returned by Chang'E-6 (CE-6) mission from the far-side South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, the team identified a distinct geochemical fingerprint of atomic sodium (Na) and potassium (K) vapor condensation. The study demonstrates that this process is independent of target rock composition and represents a fundamental phenomenon on airless bodies.

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology find that algal bloom intensity and timing often change independently: about 71% of lakes show increasing intensity, mainly associated with higher population density and agricultural pressure. Under a medium-emission scenario, tropical lakes show rapid intensification with modest timing shifts, while cold-region lakes exhibit regionally contrasting timing changes. This decoupling may alter lake food webs and carbon cycling, underscoring the need for region-specific management strategies under climate change.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of Impatiens during a plant diversity survey in Zayu County, Xizang, China. They named the new species Impatiens zayuensis S. Peng, G. W. Hu & Q. F. Wang

Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with the collaborators from Nanjing University and Yanshan University, directly observed the Meissner effect in two-dimensional superconductors using a high-sensitivity magnetic measurement technique.

Researchers from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a silver-decorated, metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived TiO_2-X nanocomposite enriched with oxygen vacancies, enabling both the removal and detection of trace radioactive iodide ions.

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry have shown that a single mutation buried within the cell membrane can rewire immune receptor signaling and drive T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), They also demonstrated a potential strategy for selectively blocking the disease-causing signaling pathway.