A Chinese research team has developed a single-step femtosecond laser 4D printing technology that enables rapid and precise micro-scale deformation of smart hydrogels. This innovation, inspired by the hierarchical structure of butterfly wings, holds significant promise for applications in flexible electronics and minimally invasive medicine.

Chinese scientists from Prof. ZHOU Jianmin's team at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology revealed that a widespread plant defense metabolite may help combat bacterial diseases in crops.

Chinese researchers have made a breakthrough by discovering that microdomes made from common polymers exhibit tunable chiral structural colors with broad-spectrum capabilities and multiple polarization-modulated chirality. This advancement could have significant implications for applications in displays, sensors, and data security.

A groundbreaking study Led by Dr. DENG Hongping of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shed new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects—celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets. 

Researchers led by Prof. CHEN Xiaoya from the CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences/Shanghai Chenshan Research Center and Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) used targeted gene editing to modify just five amino acids of the Coq1 rice enzyme, creating new rice varieties capable of synthesizing coenzyme CoQ₁₀.

Scientists led by Prof. LIU Jing from the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have created a leukocyte-like liquid metallic entity that vividly simulates various leukocyte behaviors in nature.

A research team led by Prof. WANG Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered two bird fossils in Jurassic-era rocks from Fujian Province in southeast China. These rocks date back approximately 149 million years. The fossils fill a spatiotemporal gap in the early evolutionary history of birds and provide the evidence yet that birds were diversified by the end of the Jurassic period.