A research team has evaluated a collection of climate models to better understand how well they can simulate multiyear El Niño events and their impact on spring precipitation over southern China. Their study showed that while many climate models can reproduce the multiyear El Niño events, most of them struggle to simulate their impacts on southern China’s spring precipitation.

A team at the Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry and the Institute of Advanced Carbon Conversion Technology, Huaqiao University has developed a coordination-pyrolysis strategy to fabricate a highly dispersed copper sulfide (CuS) nanosheets supported on N-doped porous carbon precatalyst (CuS@NC). The covalent S species trigger the deep-reconstruction of CuS nanosheets, and the in-situ generated SO₄^2- not only promotes the formation of Cu^2+δ species but also facilitates the cleavage of α–C–H and –O–H bonds in HMF. The optimized CuS@NC achieved a high current density of 335 mA cm^-2 at 1.5 V vs. RHE, representing a remarkable 628% enhancement over the control catalyst.

A team led by Professor Guosheng Tang from Guangzhou Medical University, Associate Professor Yutao Liu from Tianjin University, and Professor Bin Liu from Nankai University has proposed an innovative probiotic delivery strategy. They successfully fabricated single-bacterium microgels using gas-shearing technology, significantly enhancing the survival rate and therapeutic efficacy of probiotics in the gastrointestinal tract. This study demonstrates the potential of this technology in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) through the precise encapsulation of Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN). The related work, titled "Fabrication of Single-Bacterium Microgel with Gas-Shearing Strategy for Precision Probiotic Delivery in IBD Therapy," is published in Research journal (Research, 2025 DOI: 10.34133/research.0955).

On October 3, 2025, a multicenter team from Shenzhen University, Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Wuxi People's Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University, among others jointly reported a novel noninvasive method for quantifying tumor fibrosis based on preoperative enhanced CT. This method enables precise assessment of the tumor microenvironment characteristics of pancreatic cancer and individualized guidance for chemotherapy regimens. It covers scenarios such as prognostic stratification of resectable pancreatic cancer, efficacy prediction of AG chemotherapy regimens for unresectable pancreatic cancer, and cross-cohort validation of multimodal imaging. The paper, titled "Noninvasive Computed Tomography-Based Quantification of Tumor Fibrosis Predicts Pancreatic Cancer Response to Gemcitabine/Nab-Paclitaxel", was published in Research (Research, 2025, 0937, DOI: 10.34133/research.0937).