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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 26-Apr-2025 16:08 ET (26-Apr-2025 20:08 GMT/UTC)

9-Apr-2025

Jurassic fossil sheds light on evolutionary origins of thorny-headed worms

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A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in Inner Mongolia, China.

Journal

Nature

9-Apr-2025

Chinese scientists discover drier mantle on Moon's farside, offering potential insight on lunar evolution

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chinese scientists have discovered that the Moon’s mantle contains less water on the lunar farside than on the nearside, based on analysis of basalts collected by the Chang'e-6 (CE6) lunar mission.

Journal

Nature

8-Apr-2025

Rare earth element-enhanced TiO2 achieves high-efficiency photocatalytic overall water splitting

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

 A research team led by Prof. LIU Gang from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has achieved a breakthrough in photocatalytic water splitting by developing a scandium (Sc)-doped titanium dioxide semiconductor in the rutile crystal phase.

Journal

Journal of the American Chemical Society

8-Apr-2025

Researchers unveil evolutionary conservation and innovation in mammalian hypothalamus development

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. WU Qingfeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated the conserved cellular development and evolutionary innovations in the developing human hypothalamus.

Journal

Developmental Cell

8-Apr-2025

Chinese researchers boost efficiency of direct methanol fuel cell catalysts

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Tierui from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a new catalyst that significantly enhances the efficiency and durability of methanol oxidation reactions.

Journal

Matter

7-Apr-2025

Newly discovered PNS microglia found to regulate neuron size

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. LI Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and identified their crucial role in regulating neuronal soma size throughout evolution.

Journal

Cell

7-Apr-2025

New study reveals how tumors hijack key nutrient to evade immune attack

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chinese scientists have revealed a hidden metabolic partnership between breast cancer cells and immune cells that drives aggressive tumor behavior and resistance to immunotherapies. The study sheds light on how tumor cells exploit the amino acid arginine to both fuel their growth and evade the immune system.

Journal

Cancer Cell

6-Apr-2025

USTC proposes frontier molecular orbital theory for single-atom catalyst design

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics innovatively introduced the Frontier Molecular Orbital (FMO) theory into the design of heterogeneous SACs. They achieved the first successful application of the FMO theory in heterogeneous catalysis and obtained a highly active and stable SAC for hydrogenation reactions.

Journal

Nature

3-Apr-2025

Face processing abnormalities identified in autism dog model

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has revealed that Beagle dogs carrying mutations in the Shank3 gene—a high-risk gene for autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—exhibit face processing abnormalities similar to those observed in human ASD patients.

Journal

Science Advances

3-Apr-2025

Researchers uncover role of fungal circadian clock in pathogenicity

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of scientists led by Prof. LIU Xiao from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered a crucial link between the circadian clock and the pathogenicity of Fusarium oxysporum, offering new insight into how Fusarium oxysporum adapts to its host environment.

Journal

Science Advances