Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators showed that macrofauna (large soil animals such as millipedes, woodlice, and earthworms) enhanced decomposition, but their activities weakened the predictive capacity of initial litter traits for decomposition dynamics.

Researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a new wear threshold model for diamond ruling tools, improving the precision and stability of manufacturing high-performance echelle gratings.

Oxygen is a fundamental foundation of river ecosystems, sustaining ecological health, supporting aquatic organisms, and regulating biogeochemical cycles. Its decline poses threats to river biodiversity. According to a study published in Science Advances on May 15, global rivers are undergoing widespread and sustained deoxygenation driven by climate warming, among which tropical rivers are the most vulnerable ecosystems, with an urgent need to combat oxygen loss.

Dr. TU Jie's team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology identified a neural circuit from dopamine 1 receptors (D1R) neurons in prefrontal cortex (PFC) to corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neurons in paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of hypothalamus that functionally connects the brain's reward system with the stress-response system and mediates reward-driven top-down regulation of stress.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Hongzhi from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a bioselective surface-enhanced Raman scattering chip, the BioGate Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Chip, for rapid identification of malignant breast cancer margins during surgery.

A team led by Prof. WANG Yufei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with a collaborator from Austria, revealed a complex response of plant diversity to climate warming during the past 14,000 years in the Hengduan Mountains of southwestern China.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden have developed a promising strategy for restoring diverse and resilient submerged plant communities in eutrophic lakes, addressing a long-standing challenge in aquatic ecosystem restoration: the tendency of submerged plant communities to become dominated by a single species, which can compromise the long-term health and stability of the lake ecosystem.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators have assembled the first chromosome-level genomes of two sympatric Macaranga species: Macaranga indica and Macaranga denticulata. Using multi-omics analysis, population genetics, phylogenomics, and molecular validation, they revealed the molecular mechanisms underlying nervonic acid accumulation in Macaranga indica.

A research team led by Dr. Mohsin Tanveer from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how microRNA-mediated transcriptome regulatory networks contribute to salt tolerance in cotton by coordinating photosynthesis, redox balance, and growth responses under salt stress.

A recent research described a physics-based framework to map out global subsurface soil temperature profiles by harnessing the multi-overpass capabilities of China's Fengyun meteorological satellites. This work was led by Prof. ZHAO Tianjie from the Laboratory of Earth Observation for Water at the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Changsha University of Science and Technology, and Tsinghua University, has proposed a systematic and unified framework that integrates Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing with Weakly Supervised Learning (WSL). The study provides a comprehensive review that bridges the traditional gap between LiDAR data interpretation and large-scale parameter inversion, offering scalable solutions to reduce the high costs of manual data annotation in Earth observation.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences warned that, while LLMs provide revolutionary tools for ecological research, they require prudent implementation and regulatory management to maximize benefits and mitigate potential risks.

A team led by GUI Huaqiao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with the collaborators, developed a universal semi-supervised artificial intelligence (AI) learning framework designed to reduce the burden of manual annotation in 3D medical image segmentation while improving model generalization across multiple clinical centers.

A research team led by Profs. GAO Jing and YAO Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with international scientists, has determined how the westerlies integrate their moisture into the local water cycle under non-precipitating conditions.

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Chongqing University has developed a heteronuclear rhodium-cobalt (Rh-Co) dual-atom catalyst that enables highly efficient nitrile hydrogenation under mild conditions, breaking the long-standing activity-selectivity trade-off in this important industrial reaction.

Researchers from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a compositionally complex bulk-doping strategy that significantly improves the structural stability of a promising cobalt-free high-voltage cathode material, enabling stable operation even under demanding fast-charging conditions.

A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently investigated the fully mycoheterotrophic species Burmannia nepalensis. The research highlight the combined roles of geographic isolation and historical climate dynamics in shaping the genetic structure of Burmannia nepalensis, and provide empirical evidence for the presence of multiple northern glacial refugia in subtropical China.

Using sub-arcsecond high-resolution observations from the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) and the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) , researchers reveal the process of lower-atmosphere magnetic reconnection driving bidirectional plasma jets and coronal heating.