Remote gas sensing in complex environments represents a critical frontier in environmental science. A team of Chinese scientists has developed a novel dual-comb spectroscopy system featuring single-photon detection, exceptional robustness, and broadband spectral analysis. This technology enables precise identification of gas compositions under harsh conditions with attowatt sensitivity, advancing global climate monitoring and pollution detection. It is poised to address urgent societal demands for sustainable and intelligent sensing solutions.

A research team indicates that treatments with ethylene and 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP), especially in combination, dramatically inhibit postharvest sprouting, enhance flavor and color, and extend shelf life.

Researchers have developed a transparent solar concentrator that can be directly coated onto architectural glass, enabling colorless and unidirectional solar energy collection. This new design, based on cholesteric liquid crystal films with submicron periodic structures, offers high efficiency, wide-angle operation, and aesthetic compatibility with modern buildings—opening a path toward scalable, building-integrated photovoltaics for carbon emission reduction.

A research team has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that harnesses unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data to predict wheat yields with exceptional accuracy.

A research team has developed Spotibot, a deep learning–powered application available on both web and mobile platforms, designed to automatically detect and measure Botrytis lesions on rose petals.

A research team introduces the In-Media Plant PET Root Imaging System (IMP²RIS), a novel tool that enables real-time, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) in soybean roots grown in soil-like media.

Chichibabin diradicaloids, characterized by narrow band gaps and near-infrared (NIR) absorption, are limited in their practical applications in the biomedical field due to their instability and non-emissive properties. Herein, a symmetry-breaking and donor-modulating strategy yielded the highly stable Chichibabin diradicaloid TT-CzPh, with NIR luminescence (λ_em = 821 nm), 6.4% PLQY, and 87.5% PCE. Assembled into TT-CzPh NPs (82% PCE), it achieved NIR-guided tumor ablation in 4T1 mice, advancing their bioimaging and cancer phototherapy applications.