A new study offers a clearer view of how mechanical stress and electrochemical processes interact inside lithium-ion batteries, providing a multi-scale framework that could support better battery design and stress monitoring. By combining time-domain and frequency-domain analysis, the research helps explain how diffusion-induced stress influences lithium transport from individual particles up to the electrode level.

A research team from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has uncovered the mechanisms enabling these deep-sea supergiants to thrive under extreme nutritional constraints.

Researchers have developed a real-time vehicle-tracking framework that can follow traffic across large roadside sensor networks with low latency and meter-level accuracy, a step that could help support safer and more responsive vehicle-road-cloud integration systems.

Researchers have developed a comprehensive numerical model for liquid metal batteries that captures potential, mass transfer, and species distribution while remaining fast enough to support practical battery management. The work could help bring greater precision to how these emerging batteries are monitored, controlled, and optimized, especially in long-duration energy storage applications where both safety and lifespan are critical.

A groundbreaking multidisciplinary study reveals that the abundant mangrove fern Acrostichum aureum in Hainan Island harbors moderate genetic diversity but faces hidden vulnerability, providing critical evidence for targeted mangrove ecosystem conservation strategies.

A new review in the Journal of Pancreatology explores TIGIT as a pivotal immune checkpoint for cancer immunotherapy. It details TIGIT’s immunosuppressive mechanisms, its correlation with poor prognosis, and the superior efficacy of anti-TIGIT/PD-1 combination therapy in overcoming resistance to conventional immune checkpoint inhibitors.

How do waves spread, stall, or pile up in materials that are both messy and “open”—leaking energy to their surroundings? Researchers at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences have derived a compact mathematical rule, the universal Thouless relations (UTRs), that links two seemingly separate things: how densely energy levels populate the spectrum, and how strongly waves grow or decay across the system. The relations work for a broad family of one-dimensional disordered, non-Hermitian models, predict the boundary between two kinds of wave trapping without heavy computation, and uncover a new type of “half-localized, half-fractal” critical state with no counterpart in ordinary closed systems.

Reservoirs around the world are losing storage capacity at an average rate of 7.3 percent per decade—disproportionately affecting small reservoirs, which together provide water to billions of people. The data come from a study published in Nature Sustainability on June 5, which offers the clearest global assessment of reservoir sedimentation to date.

Researchers developed MARVAL, an automated platform for measuring the shape of brain blood vessels from time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography. In more than 3,000 community participants and nearly 9,000 stroke patients with high-quality imaging, the team built an East Asian cerebrovascular template, charted age-related vascular changes, and found that small-vessel integrity and network complexity were strongly associated with disability, recurrence and mortality after ischemic stroke.