New research on Australia’s K’gari reveals high‑intensity human‑caused wildfires drastically reduce vertebrate diversity in fire‑adapted Banksia aemula woodlands, underscoring urgent needs for evidence‑based fire management.

Lensless multi-core fiber endoscopes suffer from honeycomb-like artifacts that obscure fine structures. To overcome this, researchers from Tsinghua University and Technische Universität Dresden developed SGARNet, which allows us to cleanly erase long-standing honeycomb artifacts via the frequency domain, bypass the need for massive paired data, and seamlessly recover high-fidelity images. The technique will open new avenues for future minimally invasive diagnostics and advanced endoscopic technologies.

A bimetallic NiFe catalyst was successfully constructed to overcome the activity–selectivity trade‑off in furfural hydrogenation. The introduction of Fe dilutes continuous Ni sites, modulates the electronic structure, and creates synergistic active sites: Ni for H₂ dissociation and Fe for carbonyl activation. This design boosts the selectivity toward furfuryl alcohol from 38% to >90% at nearly full conversion, while maintaining high activity and recycle stability.

A field study reveals that combining biochar with organic fertilizer can significantly improve soil structure, nutrient availability, and beneficial microbial communities in dryland farming systems, offering a promising pathway toward more sustainable agriculture.

Cities around the world are searching for practical ways to adapt to climate change, manage stormwater, and reduce urban heat. A new field study offers compelling evidence that a simple material could significantly improve one of the most promising urban solutions: green roofs.

Real-time precise positioning depends on correction products that refine satellite orbit, clock, and bias information. 

A research team has developed a camera-only visual odometry (VO) system that uses prebuilt colored point cloud maps to deliver more accurate and robust localization with reduced drift in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-challenged environments.