Wenchao Li from Hebei Agricultural University and Lingling Hua from Beijing University of Agriculture et al. have developed an online monitoring system for NPS pollution in continuous cropping farmland based on a serial pipeline. The system, with diversion trenches, online flowmeters, and dynamic acquisition devices as the core, realizes real-time monitoring and automated sampling of farmland runoff through innovative design. Compared with traditional runoff pools, the design of diversion trenches and transmission pipelines in the new system significantly reduces the project scale, lowers construction costs and land occupation, and avoids interference with agricultural production activities. The related paper had been published in Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering (DOI: 10.15302/J-FASE-2024596).

A groundbreaking approach to turning waste into wealth is set to take center stage in an upcoming international webinar.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. XU Yigang and Prof. LIN Mang from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified seven olivine-bearing clasts from two grams of lunar regolith returned by the Chang'e-6 mission. Their findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on Oct. 20.

In International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have developed a dual post-processing method to make 3D-printed metals much stronger and tougher, addressing one of the field’s most persistent challenges.