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.

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.

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).

Prof. LI Yunhai's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators, revealed a novel epigenetic mechanism by which a complex formed by the histone-binding protein LARGE3 and the histone deacetylase OsHDT1 regulates grain size in rice by modulating histone H4 acetylation.

Spartina alterniflora has rapidly expanded in China’s coastal wetlands, but its effects on methane emissions remain unclear. Using one-year in situ monitoring and integrated biogeochemical and microbial analyses, this study shows that Spartina invasion increases soil methane emissions by enhancing labile organic matter and altering methane-cycling microbial communities.

A team from the Xiaoliang Research Station of the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that nitrogen form is the key factor determining nutrient utilization. Based on this finding, the team proposes revising traditional "application-heavy" methods and adopting a core strategy centered on "form optimization.

A research team led by Prof. LI Qingman from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposes a new multi-level assessment framework for internal P release risk based on dilute-HCl extracted P (dHCl-P), providing a practical tool for sediment P risk evaluation in freshwater ecosystems.

A new analytical model developed by researchers at the Yunnan Observatories (YNAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that the long photometric cycles of double-periodic variables (DPVs) can be attributed to tidally driven nodal precession of tilted accretion disks. This model provides an analytical framework for deciphering the physical mechanisms underlying these interacting binary systems.

Using high-resolution IRIS observations and multi-component Gaussian fitting of Si IV 1403 Å line profiles, a research team at the Yunnan Observatories discovered that long-duration explosive events in the solar transition region exhibit evolving non-Gaussian spectral wing enhancements—primarily bilateral—with sustained bidirectional flows, providing direct evidence for ongoing magnetic reconnection.

A research team from Yunnan Observatories used LAMOST data to characterize 123 composite-spectrum hot subdwarf binaries. They derived mass, radius, and orbital period distributions that indicate these systems predominantly form through the stable Roche-lobe overflow channel. This work presents the largest and most homogeneously characterized sample of composite-spectrum hot subdwarf binaries and lays the groundwork for future large-sample studies of binary evolution.

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.

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.

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.