Grasslands, covering 40% of the Earth’s vegetated surface, play a crucial role in the global carbon balance but are increasingly threatened by climate-driven water scarcity. A new study published in Science Advances finds, however, that a widespread wind speed decline—a phenomenon known as “terrestrial stilling”—is enhancing the ability of global grasslands to absorb more carbon while minimizing water loss. This shift offers a crucial buffer for these water-limited biomes under climate change.

Researchers led by Dr. WANG Lan from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with their collaborators, uncovered a critical role for the RNA binding protein with multiple splicing (RBPMS) in driving AML progression. They also proposed a potential therapy involving the pathway between RBPMS and the FOXO1 protein.

A research team led by Prof. LI Feng, Prof. SUN Zhenhua, and CAS Member CHENG Huiming, proposed a new principle for electrochemical systems that focuses on the declining efficiency of solid-phase electron transport, opening new avenues for electrocatalyst design.

Aging is a complex process, and precisely measuring how the human body declines has long been a challenge. Two people of the same chronological age can have very different health trajectories. Scientists have also struggled to move beyond identifying aging markers to pinpointing what actually drives aging itself. Now researchers from China’s Aging Biomarker Consortium (ABC) have built a computational framework—the Digital Aging Twin—to study aging at the individual level in order to predict biological age and track the different aging rates of individual organs.

The international collaboration of the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite has, for the first time, directly observed the charge-dependent "spectral softening" of five primary cosmic-ray nuclei, i.e. protons, helium, carbon, oxygen, and iron, whereby the number of these particles drops off more steeply at higher energies.