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.

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 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 led by Profs. JIANG Ling and LI Gang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Prof. WANG Lai-Sheng from Brown University, has experimentally discovered that neutral boron oxide clusters (BO₃, B₂O₄, B₃O₆) contain key structural units—BO, BO₃, and B₂O₅—which are essential building blocks of the two-dimensional vitreous network. The findings provide important insights into the microstructure and growth mechanisms of vitreous materials.

A research team from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has pinpointed soil moisture as the principal water stress factor for vegetation across Central Asia. The study, led by Prof. Guli Jiapaer from XIEG, has been recently published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

A team led by LU Fei from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with CAO Xinyou's team from Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, successfully assembled a high-quality reference genome of the widely cultivated strong-gluten wheat variety Jimai 44, providing key insights into the evolution and formation of wheat quality traits.

A research team led by Prof. LI Feng, Prof. SUN Zhenhua, and CAS Member CHENG Huiming, proposed a new principle for electrochemical systems that focuses on the declining efficiency of solid-phase electron transport, opening new avenues for electrocatalyst design.

A team led by CHEN Chong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a new synergistic strategy based on glutathione (GSH) additives, which combines "dynamic regulation" and "static protection" to improve both the efficiency and stability of inverted perovskite solar cells.

Researchers led by Profs. GU Hongcang and ZHANG Fan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed BCRInsight, an AI language model capable of decoding the complex "fingerprints" of BCRs, which is based on phenotype-aware contrastive learning and leverages self-supervised learning on large-scale sequence datasets.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have clarified how no-till farming combined with straw mulching improves soil fertility and increases maize yields over time, based on a 15-year field experiment in Northeast China.

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.

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.

A research team from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered that specific grain boundaries in magnetite exhibit substantially higher electrical conductivity than the surrounding grain interiors, overturning the long-held belief that grain boundaries inevitably degrade electrical transport.