Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators uncovered a complex trade-off that balsa’s large leaves and sparser canopies can intensify the initial splash of raindrops, but its root-driven soil properties dramatically boost water infiltration. This enhanced infiltration may actually reduce the urgency of soil-conservation interventions compared with rubber systems.

A new study has placed stringent new constraints on ultralight dark matter. It incorporates pulsar distance information for more accurate density modeling, further demonstrating the potential of pulsar timing arrays as a multi-purpose probe for dark matter physics.

Many scientists have assumed that NSC storage strategies reflect current environmental conditions. However, a new global study led by YAN Zhengbing from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences emphasizes that evolutionary history plays a stronger role than contemporary environmental conditions in shaping NSC storage.

A research group led by the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences established an expanded Germline Stem Cell technology that effectively solves the problem of stably obtaining donor GSCs for intraspecific surrogate reproduction.

The Moon has been bathed in solar wind for billions of years, but the two hemispheres are struck by solar wind of different speeds and energies. A research based on China's Chang'e-6 samples reveals that Earth's magnetosphere has shaped this difference.

Prof. JIANG Ling's and Prof. LI Gang's team revealed a hydration-driven configuration transformation in neutral hydrated binuclear strontium hydroxide clusters.

A new study unravels divergent and convergent responses of two sympatric oaks via traits integration and adaptive strategies to climate change. Their distinct trait plasticity and phenotypic integration under unfavorable climate might lead to niche differentiation and complex community assembly.

A research team from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a dual-site substitution strategy, in which single Te atoms simultaneously substitute for both Mo and S atoms in the MoS₂ lattice. The resulting Te-MoS₂ catalyst presents outstanding HER performance at large current densities in acidic electrolytes.

A new study led by the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that colossal karst sinkholes can help preserve the endangered tree Magnolia aromatica, while also limiting gene flow and diminishing its long-term evolutionary potential.

Dr. ZHANG Zhe's group from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified tryptamine as an endogenous sleep-promoting molecule, and found that tryptamine activates GPR139 neurons in the preoptic area, bridging waking neural activity and sleep onset.

Previously overlooked natural forest expansion represents a larger carbon sink than secondary forests, highlighting its potential role in mitigating global climate change, according to a new study led by the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Researchers led by Prof. WANG Lei from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed two coordinated molecular mechanisms that maintain efficient protein phosphorylation in the Golgi apparatus during lactation.

A team of researchers led by FANG Cheng and MA Yinzhong from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered a key mechanism by which aging weakens the brain's vascular protection system.

Chinese researchers have achieved accelerated entanglement generation in a non‑Hermitian system using a trapped‑ion experimental platform. This breakthrough surpasses the traditional Hermitian quantum speed limit, enhancing the preparation speed of entangled states by a factor of 1.52.

Researchers have recently developed a method to prepare the ionic state using multi-pulse operations in a linear ion trap, enabling the measurement of the ground-state hyperfine magnetically insensitive transition of beryllium ions.

A new study has identified key gut bacterial strains and metabolic markers associated with aging and validated their potential functions, offering a fresh strategy for delaying aging and addressing age-related chronic diseases.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators investigated the growth resilience and recovery dynamics of four pine species widespread across Southeast Asia under extreme drought conditions. Their findings reveal that drought sensitivity and tree growth traits, rather than long-term climate averages, are the primary drivers of how these pines withstand and recover from severe dry spells.

A new study led by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences has visualized the spatiotemporal evolution of photogenerated holes in a facet-engineered bismuth vanadate photocatalyst using a home-built in-situ transient reflection microscope.