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Study finds link between nighttime light exposure and depression via specific brain circuit in tree shrews

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A new study by Prof. XUE Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Prof. YAO Yonggang of the Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Prof. ZHAO Huan of Hefei University has revealed that chronic exposure to artificial light at night (LAN) can trigger depression-like behaviors by activating a specific neural pathway in the brain.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

New Chinese database bridges global gaps in plant trait data

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Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have built the Chinese Seed Trait Database (CSTD), which has been published in New Phytologist. This innovation overcomes longstanding language barriers (e.g., Chinese-to-English data translation) and enhances the completeness of global seed trait data, providing an invaluable resource for advancing large-scale plant science research.

Journal: New Phytologist

USTC develops weakly space-confined all-inorganic perovskite light-emitting diodes

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Prof. XIAO Zhengguo's team from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a novel strategy based on weakly space-confined, large-grain crystals of all-inorganic perovskite to prepare perovskite films with larger crystalline grains and higher temperature resistance.

Journal: Nature

Scientists reveal gene pairs conferring resistance to wheat diseases

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A research team led by Prof. LIU Zhiyong at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified two novel genetic mechanisms for disease resistance in wheat, offering promising strategies to enhance resilience against powdery mildew and stripe rust.

Journal: Nature Genetics

Dual-laser strategy revolutionizes breast cancer photothermal therapy

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A team led by ZHANG Pengfei from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and collaborators, developed a dual-laser PTT (DLPTT) strategy for breast cancer therapy. This approach enhances tumor ablation while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissues by using near-infrared photothermal agents with aggregation-induced emission properties.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Scientists discover new, extremely neutron-deficient isotope protactinium-210

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Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have synthesized a new isotope—protactinium-210—for the first time. It is the most neutron-deficient isotope of protactinium synthesized to date.

Journal: Nature Communications

Researchers uncover genetic keys to the increasing threat of H9N2 avian influenza

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A new study led by Prof. BI Yuhai and Prof. George F. Gao (GAO Fu) from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered significant genetic and antigenic diversity among H9N2 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) circulating in poultry across China, highlighting the growing public health risk posed by H9N2 AIVs.

Journal: Nature Microbiology

Super-Earth discovered in habitable zone of Sun-like star via TTV technique, paving way for ‘Earth 2.0’ searches

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An international research team led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with collaborators, has achieved a breakthrough by using the Transit Timing Variation (TTV) technique for the first time to discover a super-Earth. The exoplanet, Kepler-725c, has 10 times the mass of Earth and is located in the habitable zone of the Sun-like star Kepler-725. The discovery was published in Nature Astronomy.

Journal: Nature Astronomy

New cell-sorting platform accelerates discovery of high-value microbes

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Chinese researchers have developed an advanced, high-throughput single-cell sorting platform that enables direct isolation of living cells with targeted metabolic profiles from large mutant libraries.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Tempo of Late Ordovician Mass Extinction controlled by rate of climate change: study

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Traditionally, the duration of LOME was estimated at 1–2 million years. However, the use of advanced high-precision zircon U-Pb dating techniques shows that the extinction occurred on a much shorter timescale, spanning hundreds of thousands of years.

Journal: Science Advances

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