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  • Researchers Identify "Northwest Passage" Mechanism of Bile Acid Transport

    A research team led by Eric H. Xu from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with MA Xiong from Renji Hospital, determined how Ostα/β transports bile acids and why it differs fundamentally from previously characterized carriers through cryo-EM structure determination, molecular dynamics simulations, and electrophysiological analyses.

    Feb 02, 2026
  • Xigou Site Discovery Challenges Long-Held Views on Early Human Technology in East Asia

    Led by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the team—which included researchers from China, Australia, Spain, and the United States—conducted multidisciplinary archaeological investigations at the Xigou site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir region of central China. Their work yielded evidence of sophisticated stone tool technologies dating from 160,000 to 72,000 years ago, revealing that hominins in the region were far more innovative and adaptable than previously thought.

    Jan 28, 2026
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Earth Sciences
  • Huayuan Biota Decodes Earth's First Phanerozoic Mass Extinction

    While paleontologists have uncovered dozens of such Cambrian soft-bodied fossil sites—including China's early Cambrian Chengjiang biota in Yunnan and Canada's middle Cambrian Burgess Shale biota, the most famous examples of their kind—no equivalent top-tier soft-bodied fossil deposit had ever been found from the critical post-Sinsk Event time interval. That changed over the past five years, however, with the discovery of the Huayuan biota—a world-class soft-bodied fossil deposit dating to shortly after the Sinsk Event.

    Jan 29, 2026
  • Study Reveals How Superionic State Enables Long-Term Water Storage in Earth's Interior

    A research team from the Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, used complementary molecular dynamics simulations, combining ab initio and deep-learning potential methods. Their findings reveal that under deep lower mantle and core–mantle boundary (CMB) conditions, water and the key hydrous mineral δ-AlOOH enter a superionic state—which combines features of a solid crystal lattice with liquid-like mobile ions—thereby fundamentally altering their stability and dehydration behavior.

    Jan 29, 2026
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Information Tech
  • Researchers Develop Hybrid AI-Physics Method for Accurate Aerosol Remote Sensing

    A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new method combining deep learning with physical radiative transfer modeling to improve the retrieval of atmospheric aerosol properties from complex satellite observations, supporting high-resolution, near-real-time monitoring of haze and dust events.

    Jan 27, 2026
  • Satellite Study Reveals 24.2 Billion Tonne Annual Groundwater Loss in High Mountain Asia

    A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia, widely known as the "Asian Water Tower". This critical water source, which sustains agricultural irrigation, urban water supplies and ecological security for hundreds of millions of people in more than a dozen downstream countries, is depleting at a staggering rate of approximately 24.2 billion tonnes per year.

    Jan 20, 2026
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