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16-Oct-2026

Wind plays an overlooked role in ecosystem water-use efficiency

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wind does more than sway trees. It also plays an important role in determining an ecosystem’s water-use efficiency—defined as the amount of carbon an ecosystem absorbs per unit of water lost. Water-use efficiency is an important measure of how ecosystems balance growth and water availability. A research team led by Prof. FU Zheng at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed a previously overlooked role for wind in regulating ecosystem water-use efficiency.

Journal: Nature Climate Change

16-Oct-2026

Wetland reclamation brings limited agricultural gains but high flood exposure

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. DONG Jinwei from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, has mapped global croplands reclaimed from wetlands from 2000 to 2022 and evaluated their crop production performance and flood exposure risk.

Journal: Nature Sustainability

14-Oct-2026

Study calls for locally tailored wastewater reuse in China

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Wastewater reclamation is increasingly regarded as an alternative water source to mitigate water scarcity in China. However, expanding wastewater treatment capacity alone may not be enough to ease this scarcity, since wastewater supply, treatment facilities, and reuse demand are not always geographically aligned. These findings were highlighted in a new study led by Prof. SHEN Lei from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which was published in Nature Water.

Journal: Nature Water

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19-Oct-2026

Ultrafast switching of optical properties in a doped semiconductor by intense femtosecond laser pulses

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

Researchers at Imperial and Exeter investigated why ultrafast optical switching in indium tin oxide reaches saturation – and identified a distinct high-intensity regime not captured by the conventional two-temperature model

Journal: Light: Science & Applications
Funder: Val O’Donoghue Scholarship in Natural Sciences, UKRI, European Research Council, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

16-Oct-2026

Researchers propose framework for "third-generation metabolomics"

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Profs. XU Guowang and LIU Xinyu from the Dalian Institut e of Chemical Physics has proposed a framework for "Third-generation metabolomics" that integrates standardization, streamlined workflow, automation, and intelligence.

16-Oct-2026

Single-fiber three-dimensional shape sensing via femtosecond laser inscribed orthogonal eccentric scatterers

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

Three-dimensional shape sensing is critical for soft robotics, medical navigation, and intelligent perception systems, yet existing high-performance approaches typically rely on multicore fibers or multiple sensing channels. Researchers from Northwest University have developed a deformation-encoding strategy based on femtosecond-laser-inscribed misplaced orthogonal eccentric scatterers, enabling a standard single-mode fiber to reconstruct complex 3D shapes using only a single interrogation channel. The work establishes a new pathway toward miniaturized, high-density, and highly integrated optical fiber sensing systems.

Journal: Light: Science & Applications
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Northwest University Postgraduate Student Project, Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Disciplines Breakthrough Plan of the Ministry of Education of China

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