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10-Nov-2026

Tiny nutrient, big mystery: Scientists uncover how plants transport nickel

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Nickel plays an important physiological role in plants, but how it is transported over long distances from stems and leaves to grains was poorly understood for more than 50 years. Now researchers have identified a key transporter gene, ZmNAET1, that controls nickel accumulation in cereal grains. They also uncovered how nicotianamine (NA), a plant-specific non-protein amino acid, mediates the long-distance transport of nickel and established the crucial role of nickel-dependent urease activity in amino acid metabolism, seed vigor, and yield formation.

Journal: Cell

10-Nov-2026

Changing magnetic dimensionality boosts spin-wave frequency in Cr2₋δTe2

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has found that changing the magnetic dimensionality of a layered material can significantly increase the frequency of spin waves. By adjusting the number of chromium vacancies in Cr_2₋δTe₂, researchers can increase the spin-wave frequency by more than five times.

Journal: Newton

5-Nov-2026

One gene, two paths: Opposite synaptic defects linked to same intellectual disability

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Dr. SHENG Nengyin of the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reframed ZC4H2-associated rare disorder (ZARD)—a disorder marked by intellectual disability, developmental delays, muscle weakness, and other neurological or physical abnormalities—as a “disease spectrum” rather than a condition driven by a single mechanism.

Journal: Neuron

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9-Nov-2026

Researchers develop synergistic additives for scalable slot-die-coated perovskite photovoltaics

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by Prof. YANG Dong from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Dalian Jiaotong University, has developed a synergistic additive strategy for large-area slot-die coating of methylammonium-free (MA-free) perovskite films.

Journal: Advanced Materials

8-Nov-2026

Theory of broadband dissipation in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recent advances in optical cavity design facilitate the concentration of light in increasingly small volumes, allowing for strong light-matter interactions and prospects for quantum technological applications. However, the large bandwidths of these interactions are incompatible with widely used quantum models that fail to accurately predict the outcomes of experiments. By advancing the quantum theory of cavity photon dissipation, researchers have introduced an efficient tool for studying these emerging regimes of cavity quantum electrodynamics.

Journal: Light: Science & Applications
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Queen’s University, Canada, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Humboldt Research Award

8-Nov-2026

Shared atomic coherence synchronizes a large-scale squeezed-light array

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scalable spatial arrays of squeezed light are needed for quantum sensing, imaging and information processing, yet maintaining uniform quantum properties across many channels is challenging. Researchers have generated a 30-channel array of polarization-squeezed light in a single paraffin-coated rubidium vapor cell. Thermal atomic motion transports and homogenizes long-lived ground-state coherence, creating global dissipative coupling that synchronizes measurable squeezing properties and enables higher effective state purity and faster recovery from perturbations as the array grows.

Journal: Light: Science & Applications
Funder: Innovation Program for Quantum Science and Technology, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Joint Funds

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