A resilience-focused deep reinforcement learning strategy reduced cumulative network performance loss by up to 79.7% relative to conventional signal control in benchmark tests and required up to 45.7% fewer behavioral-adjustment iterations to reach a new equilibrium under severe disruption.

As global climate scenarios become increasingly unpredictable, drought remains one of the most severe abiotic stresses limiting plant growth and agricultural productivity. While roots are the first organs to perceive water deficits, the precise hormonal mechanisms that allow plants to adapt by elongating their primary roots under drought conditions have remained poorly understood. A new comprehensive review sheds light on this critical survival strategy, revealing how the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) integrates with other hormonal signals to drive primary root elongation.

Arsenic contamination in paddy soils threatens food safety because flooded conditions can mobilize the toxic element and make it available for uptake by rice. A new study suggests that biochar coated with chitosan, a natural material derived from chitin, could help trap arsenic in soil and prevent it from reaching the edible grain.

Biochar is widely promoted as a tool for improving soil health and storing carbon, but its effectiveness can vary greatly from one field to another. A new global study reveals that the amount of nitrogen already present in soil is a key factor controlling both how much carbon biochar stores and how that carbon becomes stabilized.

Biochar is widely promoted as a tool for improving soil health and storing carbon. Yet its effects on soil carbon are not always consistent. New research published in Biochar shows that part of the explanation may lie in highly reactive molecules produced by persistent free radicals within biochar.

For patients with keratoconus, corneal scarring, post-transplant irregularity, or secondary corneal ectasia, clearer vision is often not as simple as changing a pair of spectacles. When the corneal surface becomes irregular, conventional glasses or soft contact lenses may not fully correct distorted optics, leaving patients with blurred vision, reduced visual quality, and difficulty in daily activities.  Scleral lenses offer a different approach. Unlike conventional corneal contact lenses, scleral lenses vault over the cornea and rest on the conjunctival tissue overlying the sclera. The fluid reservoir between the lens and the cornea can help mask corneal irregularities and improve optical performance. Although scleral lenses have been widely studied in non-Asian populations, evidence in Chinese eyes remains limited, especially for patients with irregular corneas. Anatomical differences such as eyelid morphology, eyelid tension, and palpebral aperture size may influence lens fitting and wearing experience in Asian eyes.

Lakes, often called the 'lungs of the land,' play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle, acting as significant reservoirs of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and sources of greenhouse gases. Understanding how this vital organic carbon pool responds to environmental changes is crucial, yet large-scale drivers of lake DOM composition and their interaction with climate change have remained poorly understood. A comprehensive study led by Siyue Li from the Wuhan Institute of Technology has provided unprecedented insights into these dynamics across China's diverse lake ecosystems.

A new study published in Big Earth Data proposes a switching-based pervasive augmented reality (AR) framework that integrates location-based AR (LBAR), deep learning (DL), and context-awareness to improve landmark recognition and cultural heritage engagement in smart cities. Through end-to-end implementation and real-world testing in Tehran, the framework significantly enhanced landmark detection accuracy compared with conventional LBAR systems, while demonstrating high user satisfaction and potential for sustainable urban planning. The dataset used in this study is not shared publicly due to copyright restrictions. However, to support reproducibility, all source code developed for data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation has been made openly available at https://github.com/mhvahidnia/tehran-img-classification-webapp/.

Prolactinomas are the most common hormone-secreting pituitary tumors, but their diagnosis and management can be challenging because of diverse symptoms and complex treatment decisions. An updated Chinese multidisciplinary consensus integrates the latest clinical evidence and expert experience into 36 recommendations covering screening, diagnosis, imaging, treatment, and follow-up. The guidance promotes individualized care through multidisciplinary collaboration and may help improve long-term outcomes for patients with prolactinomas across diverse healthcare settings and populations.

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) provides new insights into oxygen vacancy oscillation modes in amorphous zirconia films. Researchers from Xidian University, the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology used THz-TDS along with infrared spectroscopy and first-principles calculations to demonstrate that oxygen-vacancy migration play a key role in ionic conductivity and ferroelectric-like behavior