Long-term conservation tillage (CT) is transforming the way soil microbes responsible for nitrogen fixation behave and interact. 

A new study published in Big Earth Data develops a stochastic random forest (RF) classifier to predict extreme wind-gust (WG) occurrences along the western Mediterranean coast by integrating instantaneous and trailing 24-hour meteorological variables across multiple height levels, enabling the model to capture both short-term evolution and immediate atmospheric forcing. It demonstrates strong forecasting performance with high precision, low false-alarm rates, and reliable uncertainty estimation, while identifying barometric-pressure tendencies and humidity as key predictors, highlighting the framework’s potential for early-warning systems, climate resilience, and disaster-risk management. UERRA reanalysis data can be downloaded from the Copernicus Climate Data Store platform: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/. Supplementary materials supporting the findings of this study are openly accessible at the public GitHub repository: https://github.com/AI4OCEANS/.

Clay minerals have long been thought too large for plant absorption, but new research turns that assumption on its head. 

Microbes beneath our feet quietly orchestrate the health of ecosystems, but their seasonal rhythms remain a mystery—especially in coastal wetlands.

Intraoperative changes in visual signals can predict postoperative vision loss in patients undergoing surgery for recurrent craniopharyngiomas. The researchers report that a one-third drop in a key signal serves as an early warning, enabling timely surgical adjustments. This study is among the first to define a tailored threshold for these high-risk, technically challenging tumors, offering a practical step toward safer, more precise neurosurgical care.

A team of Xiyuan Hospital researchers reveal circadian disruption (CD) as a key driver of cardiovascular disease (CVD) multi-organ comorbidities. Caused by sleep/eating irregularities and shift work, CD disturbs SCN-controlled peripheral rhythms, triggering damage via autonomic/metabolic imbalance and gut dysbiosis, with bidirectional harm between CD and end-organ damage. CD has distinct pathological effects on cardio-cerebral, cardio-hepatic and cardio-renal comorbidities. Chronotherapies and clock-targeted drugs show promise. The study advocates personalized chronomedicine and temporal-dimension integration for network-based CVD management.

To address the long-standing challenges of difficult mass-production and low phase purity in high-entropy sodium vanadium fluorophosphates (HE-NVPF), this study developed a microfluidic system integrated with in-situ Raman spectroscopy. This setup allows for the high-throughput optimization of reaction conditions, achieving an iteration efficiency 400 times higher than traditional methods. Based on these insights, the author developed a microfluidic-assisted spray drying technique, enabling the kilogram-scale production of various HE-NVPF cathode materials . The resulting cathodes demonstrate record-breaking rate performance in sodium-ion batteries, proving the universal potential of this microfluidic synthesis platform.

The HGP2 Rare Disease Alliance of the Asia-Pacific Region (HGP2 RaDiAnce–APAC) was officially launched in Kuala Lumpur on May 10.

YBhg. Datuk Dr. Nor Fariza Binti Ngah, Deputy Director-General of Health (Research and Technical Support) at the Ministry of Health of Malaysia, and Hou Yong, General Manager of BGI Genomics, joined leading experts to discuss urgent priorities in rare disease diagnosis, genomics, and public health response.