Peach buds may be far less dormant than scientists once believed. 

In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a research team systematically interpreted the key scientific issues such as the DO threshold, structural characteristics, distribution patterns, formation and maintenance mechanisms, and driving factors of the OMZ in the context of global change. It may provide important scientific basis for further exploring the coupling relationship between global change and oceanic OMZ, and for understanding marine hypoxia and deoxygenation issues from a global perspective

Environmental enrichment (EE), which involves a combination of voluntary exercise and social interaction has been known to improve poststroke functional recovery. However, its effect on chronic inflammation and white matter pathology remains elusive. Now, a new study reveals that EE improves sensorimotor recovery after stroke while weakening correlation of infarct size with chronic inflammation and myelin damage. It also identifies TREM2-positive microglia in white matter as a potential cellular signal associated with improved functional recovery.

Low aerobic fitness and muscle weakness increase the risk of complications and death in people with heart failure. This systematic review found that combined aerobic and resistance training improves aerobic fitness and muscle strength more than aerobic training alone. This advantage remained even when total exercise time was matched. Adding resistance training may therefore be an effective strategy to enhance aerobic fitness, build muscle strength, and potentially improve prognosis in patients with heart failure.

Children’s brains continuously learn at extremely low energy cost, whereas advances in artificial neural networks typically rely on expanding model size. How brain developmental mechanisms can be incorporated to enable efficient continual learning has remained unclear. Now, the research team led by Professor Zeng Yi at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reports in National Science Review a brain-inspired continual learning framework TD-MCL, which enables cross-domain continual learning while reducing network scale.

A new review reveals how focal adhesion kinase (FAK) acts as a central regulator of tumor progression and immune suppression in solid tumors. The study summarizes molecular mechanisms of FAK activation and highlights emerging combination therapies and next-generation inhibitors that could reshape future cancer treatment strategies.