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21-Jan-2026

Scientists unveil “dissolution barocaloric” cooling, opening new path to zero-carbon refrigeration

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. LI Bing from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, has overcome a longstanding bottleneck in refrigeration technology. Their findings, published in Nature on January 22, introduce a novel cooling method based on the "dissolution barocaloric effect," which offers a promising zero-carbon alternative to traditional refrigeration.

Journal: Nature

20-Jan-2026

Scientists reveal splicing-based mechanism driving therapy resistance in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research teams led by Profs. WANG Qianfei and LIU Zhaoqi from the China National Center for Bioinformation, a research center affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with researchers from the Children's Hospital of Soochow University, analyzed transcriptome sequencing data from 702 pediatric AML patients. The team identified sequence-dependent ribonucleic acid (RNA) splicing abnormalities in roughly 36% of the cases.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine

19-Jan-2026

Researchers unlock signal recognition between legumes and rhizobia

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have elucidated how NodD recognizes flavonoids by resolving, for the first time, the high-resolution crystal structure of the complex formed between the NodD protein of pea rhizobia and the flavonoid compound hesperetin. Through this process, the researchers identified key structural elements in NodD that determine signal specificity.

Journal: Science

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21-Jan-2026

On-chip nonlocal metasurface for color router: Conquering efficiency-loss from spatial-multiplexing

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

To overcome the lack of wavelength-selective extraction in existing on-chip metasurfaces, Chinese scientists developed a novel approach by leveraging a nonlocal on-chip design based on symmetry-broken quasi-bound states in the continuum (q-BICs) physics, enabling precise wavelength-selective extraction and color routing of guided waves. Beyond free-space spatial-multiplexing schemes, these on-chip cascaded-multiplexing architectures achieve a significant improvement in the energy utilization efficiency, offering a new pathway for high-efficiency spectral control and routing on chip-integrated metadevices.

Funder: National Key Research and Development Program of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Wuhan Knowledge Innovation Special Project

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