Built on the open-access publishing platform of NEW HORIZON PRESS LIMITED, NEW Community engaged in international outreach and scholarly exchange during the 2026 international geochemistry conference. Its activities centered on emerging topics including AI-ready geochemical data, carbon removal, enhanced rock weathering, biogeochemical cycles, contaminant transport and transformation, and climate change, with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research networks.

In the misty Huaiyu Mountains of eastern China, scientists have discovered a new salamander species—and its name carries a story as remarkable as the find itself. 

A new clinical study shows that electroacupuncture (EA) can significantly improve long-term facial paralysis symptoms and help regulate brainstem excitability, even when using minimal stimulation that patients can barely feel. 

Severe early childhood caries affects millions of children worldwide and remains one of the most destructive forms of tooth decay. Although bacteria are known to play a central role in the disease, identifying the microbes actively involved in lesion progression has remained a challenge. In a new study, researchers combined DNA and RNA sequencing to investigate microbial communities residing within carious lesions, offering new insights into the biological processes that drive this debilitating childhood condition.

Wastewater is no longer just a stream to clean and discharge. 

Infectious diseases remain a major global health challenge, particularly in resource-limited settings where poverty increases disease burden and limits access to healthcare. To accelerate research and knowledge exchange, Infectious Diseases of Poverty provides a global interdisciplinary platform for prevention and control strategies. Now, the journal has achieved a 2025 Impact Factor of 7.4, ranking among the world's leading journals in tropical medicine, parasitology, and infectious diseases while promoting international scientific collaboration.

A new species of toothed toad has been discovered in the Wumeng Mountain National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province, China, marking the first new addition to the genus Oreolalax from the province in over 36 years. 

Insects have evolved remarkable ways to avoid predators, with plant mimicry among the most effective. Many living and extinct insects resemble twigs, bark, mosses, lichens or leaves, allowing them to blend seamlessly into their surroundings.

Microplastic pollution is not only a question of how much plastic is in the ocean, but also when fish meet it. A global analysis now suggests that reproductive seasons can turn familiar contamination into a sharper ecological threat. By bringing together seawater observations, fish microplastic burden records, reproductive traits and environmental data, the study shows that spawning windows often overlap with pollution hotspots and co-occurring chemical contaminants. 

Currently, the treatment for moyamoya disease (MMD), a condition characterized by the blockade of the internal carotid artery, is revascularization surgery. However, this surgery can lead to cerebral ischemia for which limited predictive tools are available. Now, a group of Chinese researchers identified preoperative blockage of the major intracranial arteries as a risk factor for cerebral infarction after combined revascularization surgery in MMD, paving the way for the development of novel prediction protocols.