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Chang’e-6 samples reveal how Earth slows solar wind striking Moon’s near side

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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. Now, research based on China’s Chang’e-6 samples reveals that Earth’s magnetosphere has shaped this difference. The study was published in Nature Geoscience.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

Haven or trap? Study finds sinkholes protect endangered tree at evolutionary cost

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Are giant sinkholes in China’s karst mountains havens or traps for the rare plants that inhabit them? A new study finds they are both—offering refuge from heat and drought while gradually eroding the evolutionary potential of an endangered tree.

Journal: Current Biology

Evolutionary history shapes plant carbon storage strategies worldwide

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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.

Journal: Nature Ecology & Evolution

Scientists uncover molecular mechanism linking water-saving irrigation to cadmium accumulation in rice

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A research team led by Profs. SHEN Renfang and ZHU Xiaofang from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated that drought and abscisic acid (ABA) signaling actively trigger excessive Cd uptake in rice under water-saving regimes.

Journal: Current Biology

Scientists discover novel domino-like phase transformation mechanism with implications for functional devices

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A research team led by Profs. CHEN Xingqiu and SUN Yan from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. NIU Haiyang from Northwestern Polytechnical University, has uncovered a previously unknown phase transformation mechanism in monolayer molybdenum telluride (MoTe₂).

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Researchers reveal iron's role in allergic airway inflammation

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Chinese researchers have revealed the key role of iron in initiating allergic airway inflammation. The study was conducted by a team led by Prof. SUN Bing from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology), along with Prof. LIU Xing's team from the Shanghai Institute of Materia and Medica.

Journal: Cell

Scientists uncover two neuronal circuits orchestrating muscle autophagy

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Researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Hong from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified two parallel neuronal circuits that regulate the autophagy-lysosome pathway in the body wall muscle of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny nematode worm. Their research has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the worm’s nervous system maintains muscle homeostasis.

Journal: Developmental Cell

Scientists develop novel method for mapping intracellular pathways of nanoparticles

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A research team led by Prof. LIU Yuan and Prof. JING Ji from the Hangzhou Institute of Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. DAI Yunlu from the University of Macau, have developed nanozyme proximity labeling (NPL), a genetic-engineering-free strategy to map the in situ interactomes and trafficking pathways of nanoparticles in live cells.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

USTC researchers reveal cyclic sealing and drainage on the Gofar Oceanic Transform Fault

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A team led by Prof. ZHANG Haijiang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences demonstrated that oceanic transform faults are dynamic systems governed by fluids, tides, and magmatism.

Journal: Science

Study: China reverses widespread freshwater deoxygenation via wastewater management

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Freshwater ecosystems worldwide have been suffering from declining oxygen levels—a trend known as deoxygenation—that threatens biodiversity, fisheries, and ecosystem stability. However, a new study published on June 26 in Nature Geoscience offers hope: targeted nutrient management via wastewater control can reverse this trajectory, even in the face of rapid climate warming.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

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