In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, a team of researchers conducted a series of CESM2 ensemble simulations under SSP2-4.5 to examine the impact of marine cloud brightening (MCB) on terrestrial drought. By injecting sea salt aerosols over certain subtropical ocean regions, they found that MCB could produce about 0.9°C global cooling and mitigate global land drying trend via reduced potential evapotranspiration by 2100 relative to that of SSP2-4.5. However, regional differences in drought response to MCB are evident, indicating the underlying complexity of terrestrial hydrological responses to artificial climate intervention. It sheds new light on the potential and risks of solar geoengineering for drought mitigation.

A new study published in National Science Review reveals the dual effects of urban greenery on compound heat-ozone pollution risks across Northern Hemisphere cities. While urban greening is widely promoted as a nature-based method to cool overheated cities, complex interactions between urban meteorology and atmospheric chemistry can create important trade-offs for ozone control. The findings call for integrated urban greening strategies that jointly enhance climate resilience, air quality, and public health.

A Nankai University team designed azaphenanthrene-fused non-fullerene acceptors and tuned their central cores with fluorine, chlorine, or bromine. Increasing halogen size progressively enhanced crystallinity and packing order. The brominated acceptor CHNBr achieved a fill factor of 78.84%, enabling binary organic solar cells to exceed 20% power conversion efficiency.

Solar interfacial evaporation has undergone rapid development in recent years, yet its overall performance has reached a plateau due to limited advances in solar-thermal materials. Herein, we propose a synergistic nano-confinement and physical-field–modulation strategy that enables concurrent acceleration of solar-driven evaporation of water and on-site remediation of organic pollutants. Implemented in hollow mesoporous carbon nanocages integrated with Fe–N₄ catalytic sites and inner wall plasmonic Au nanoparticles, the system couples mesoporous confinement with localized thermal and pressure perturbations to transform bulk water into thermodynamically activated intermediate states and substantially reduce the effective vaporization enthalpy. This integrated framework delivers high evaporation rates of 2.56 kg m⁻² h⁻¹ in planar devices and 6.84 kg m⁻² h⁻¹ in 3D architectures under one-sun irradiation, with a kinetic enhanced Hertz–Knudsen–Schrage–derived evaporation coefficient. Simultaneously, the Fe–N₄ sites enable non-radical peroxymonosulfate activation for ultrafast degradation of bisphenol A, achieving a rate of 182.5 L g⁻¹ min⁻¹. This work establishes an ingenious strategy for coupling water-state regulation and catalytic pollutant degradation to break the performance bottleneck of solar-thermal purification.

A new study reveals that oncogenic signaling can reshape cancer cells not only by changing gene activity, but also by changing how cellular machinery reads the genetic code.

A review published in UroPrecision synthesizes clinical evidence on high-intensity focused ultrasound for localized prostate cancer and highlights that intraoperative prostate compression is a promising technical refinement that enhances treatment precision and outcomes.

A review published in UroPrecision synthesizes current knowledge on prostatic stromal tumor of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP), a rare prostatic neoplasm with unpredictable clinical behavior. The review, based on 84 patients from 14 studies, highlights the demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics, diagnostic approaches, and treatment modalities for STUMP.

High glucose uptake by cancer cells is one of the most widely recognized features of tumor metabolism and provides an important biological basis for positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging. Although this phenotype is commonly attributed to the energetic and biosynthetic demands of rapid proliferation, glucose-derived carbon is also distributed among multiple downstream pathways.

A research team has uncovered a multilayered regulatory network that controls pear seed germination by integrating metabolomic, transcriptomic, and microRNA analyses. 

Myopia has become a major global public health concern. It is not simply a matter of blurred distance vision: as the eye continues to elongate, high myopia can increase the risk of macular lesions, choroidal neovascularization, retinal degeneration, and retinal detachment. With myopia rising among children and adolescents, current management increasingly combines behavioral measures, optical interventions, and pharmacological treatment. While atropine has long been the best-known option, uncovering how these medications work to slow myopia progression is far more complex than expected.

A review titled Pharmacological Management of Myopia: Emerging Agents and Novel Molecular Targets published in Eye Discovery brings together current and emerging pharmacological approaches for myopia control. Written by Tong Zhao of Nanjing Medical University and Meiyan Li of the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University, the article reviews established and investigational agents, including atropine, pirenzepine, 7-methylxanthine (7-MX), and intraocular pressure-lowering drugs. It also discusses emerging molecular targets linked to endoplasmic reticulum stress, ferroptosis, signaling pathway modulation, and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) blockade.