This comprehensive study details Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-sen’s remarkable achievements in plant germplasm collection, endangered species protection, and industrial resource development, providing valuable insights for China’s emerging national botanical garden system.

A retrospective study of 17 drug-resistant epilepsy patients found that stereo-electroencephalography-guided radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RF-TC) rapidly altered brain network connectivity after treatment. Reductions in alpha-band connectivity within epileptogenic regions were linked to clinical outcomes, suggesting that short resting-state recordings may help predict treatment response. Findings support RF-TC as a network-modulating therapy rather than a purely local lesioning procedure and highlight its potential role in guiding more personalized epilepsy care.

Researchers have introduced a novel canonical correlation guided deep neural network (CCDNN) to improve multi-source data acquisition and fusion. The model is designed to integrate heterogeneous data more effectively, addressing limitations of existing fusion methods in handling diverse and high-dimensional inputs. By leveraging advanced neural network structures, CCDNN enhances feature representation and decision-making accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance across benchmark tasks, highlighting its potential for applications in intelligent control, automation, and data-driven engineering systems.

Photonically structured colors, characterized by high resolution and dynamic responsiveness, hold promising prospects in the field of information security. However, conventional patterning methods are often limited by high equipment costs and monotonous color outputs, which restrict their widespread adoption. To address these issues, this paper proposes a novel multi-color patterning method based on light-induced chemical crosslinking. By introducing light-initiated crosslinking molecules into anti-opal hydrogels, we developed a film that can be further regulated by photo-curing, enabling a “film formation first, then patterning” approach. The structural color hydrogels created using this method can display multi-color patterns, with a minimum line width of 15 μm, significantly enhancing their information-carrying capacity. Moreover, ultraviolet radiation can increase the degree of cross-linking, thereby inhibiting swelling behavior, enhancing tensile strength, reducing elongation at break, and causing the color of the inverse opal structure to shift toward blue or disappear. With inherent responsiveness to stress, temperature, and solvents, this approach enables dynamic information display and has excellent stability (able to cycle stably for more than 100 times). This work introduces a new method for patterning stimulus-responsive structural colors and opens up new possibilities for their use in applications such as ink-free printing, information encryption, and anti-counterfeiting.

As semiconductor scaling pushes beyond 3 nm, backside power-delivery networks become essential to ease wiring congestion. A new study in Engineering introduces a ruthenium-based nano through-silicon via technology paired with an all-dry SOI wafer thinning process. The scheme delivers low-resistance, highly reliable interconnects with precise wafer uniformity, offering a practical route to efficient 3D integrated circuit design.

Childhood epilepsy lacks reliable non-invasive biomarkers for precise diagnosis. A new study in Engineering reveals that N-glycans on serum extracellular vesicles act as a promising liquid-biopsy signature. Researchers optimized extracellular vesicle isolation and used mass spectrometry combined with machine learning to identify 47 key glycans that clearly distinguish healthy children from those with focal or generalized epilepsy, offering a new path for better clinical detection and monitoring.