A collaborated research team led by Prof. MA Yanwei from the Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has shattered records in the current-carrying performance of iron-based superconducting wires.

The South Asian Summer Monsoon (SASM) is the world’s most significant monsoon system, providing approximately 80% of the region's annual rainfall—influencing agriculture, water security, and the livelihoods of over a billion people across the Indian Peninsula, the western Indochina Peninsula, and the southern Qinghai-，a recent study published in Nature seeks to address this contradiction by exploring how the SASM responds to warming under six climate scenarios, spanning from the past to the future. Led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the study develops a unified framework based on thermodynamic (moisture-driven) and dynamic (wind-driven) processes that govern changes in the SASM, suggesting that insights from past warm climates can inform our understanding of the future SASM.

A deep sea worm that inhabits hydrothermal vents survives the high levels of toxic arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them in its cells to form a less hazardous mineral.

A research team led by Prof. LI Chao from East China Normal University has uncovered the origin of voltage decay in P2-type layered oxide cathodes recently. Using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy at the Steady-State Strong Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF), the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Science, the team tracked the dynamic evolution of oxygen species and clarified their direct role in structural degradation.

Recently, a joint research team from the High Power Laser Physics Joint Laboratory at the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with a team from Harbin Institute of Technology, has achieved anisotropic three-dimensional array beam splitting control at extremely short wavelengths.

The research team innovatively proposed and experimentally validated a nanosecond-scale pulse contrast measurement method based on laser filamentation in water. This technique utilizes nonlinear optical attenuation generated by the laser-matter interaction to effectively protect the photodiode, achieving up to 40-fold attenuation of the main pulse without affecting low-intensity prepulses.

In the azure waters of the Caroline Seamounts at a depth of 1240 meters, a red-orange dumbo octopus flutters through the water with its fins as wings.

A new study published by The Australian National University experts in Nature Astronomy reveals that stars in close binary systems – pairs of stars orbiting each other at close range – can exhibit unexpectedly high levels of magnetic activity. In this study, LAMOST has played a significant role.

Regarding to the precise measurement and control of time synchronization and carrier-envelope phase difference (ΔCEP) between pulses, a concise optical method based on the phase retrieval of spectral interference and quadratic function symmetry axis was proposed, which could fit to simultaneously measure the time synchronization and ΔCEP between few-cycle pulses. The control precision of our coherent beam combining system can achieve a time delay stability within 42 as and ΔCEP measurement precision of 40 mrad, enabling a maximum combining efficiency of 98.5%. This method can effectively improve the performance and stability of coherent beam combining systems for few-cycle lasers, which will facilitate the obtaining of high-quality few-cycle lasers with high energy.

The near-inertial internal wave is a significant energy source for deep-sea mixing. However, the energy source of deep near-inertial internal waves remains largely unknown. Recently, the research team led by Prof. WANG Fan from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) has made new progress in the study of the generation mechanism of deep near-inertial kinetic energy.