In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Prof. Tao Zhou at Sichuan University and his co-workers report a route that combines stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing with laser-induced selective metallization. By exploiting the selective adhesion of a magnetic liquid-metal slurry made from Galinstan and iron particles to the copper patterns produced by laser-induced selective metallization, Prof. Zhou's team fabricated flexible devices that crawl on flat surfaces and slopes, move across water, shield electromagnetic interference, and restore cut conductive traces with magnetic assistance.

A sweeping analysis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across Asia has identified a critical window for supporting young people: ages 10 to 14, when the disorder’s impact on daily functioning is greatest. 

Domestication has given cultivated carnations striking colors, varied forms, and long vase life, but often at the cost of fragrance. 

A nurse-led card game may help ease children’s anxiety at a particularly stressful point in surgery—entry to the operating room—and may improve cooperation during anesthesia induction and early postoperative behavior, a single-center trial suggests. 

Severe infection can leave lasting cognitive deficits, but the mechanisms are unclear. Using a mouse sepsis model and human brain tissue, researchers found that peripheral monocyte-derived macrophages enter the hippocampus during acute infection and persist for months. These long-lived cells interact with microglia through pleiotrophin signaling, enhancing phagocytic activity and contributing to chronic neuroinflammation and cognitive impairment. Early blockade of immune cell entry reduced these long-term deficits, identifying a potential intervention window.

Public biomedical databases such as NHANES, UK Biobank, FAERS, the Global Burden of Disease Study, and FinnGen have become a focus of the research-integrity debate, following a rapid rise in papers built from broadly accessible datasets. A correspondence published in Medicine Discovery argues that the quality of public database research rests on the study process, while the database name provides little information about scientific quality, and that treating a familiar database name as a marker of low quality risks confusing the infrastructure with the production model that exploits it. Citing a scientometric analysis of 36 health datasets — nine of which showed publication patterns consistent with rapid, formulaic expansion, producing 23,005 indexed publications in 2025 and an estimated excess of 11,577 publications above the prior trend — the authors argue that the same NHANES files support careful epidemiology, surveillance, and methods development as well as formulaic work, and that the recent surge emerged long after the survey architecture and its public documentation were established. They describe how generative AI has changed the economics of secondary data research, distinguishing researcher-directed assistance from more autonomous workflows that extend into question formulation and analytical planning, and warning of a plausible risk of automated hypothesis fishing. The correspondence proposes three actions for editorial policy: a short dataset-specific methods note for heavily reused resources; stronger transparency around analysis code, preregistration, and AI use; and editorial screening focused on study conduct rather than data provenance. 

A research team has identified a molecular brake on the accumulation of wheat grain proteins that help determine flour processing quality. 

Researchers in China identified that the TraesCS4B02G044100 (TaGeBPL-4B) is a candidate gene of the GNS using QTL mapping and GWAS. Knockout and overexpression studies showed that TaGeBPL-4B participates in the positive regulation of the GNS. The RNA-seq and DAP-seq analyses revealed that TraesCS5B02G120800 (TaAAP-5B) is a direct downstream target gene of TaGeBPL-4B. We further confirmed this regulation by Y1H, Dual-Luc and EMSA. TaGeBPL-4B activates the expression of TaAAP-5B and modulates amino acid contents, which possibly influence wheat spike development and GNS.

Researchers in China functionally characterized the branching habit regulatory gene AhPILS in peanut through MutMap analysis. This gene encodes a PIN-like protein that mediates polar auxin transport, thereby establishing an auxin gradient at the base of lateral branches. The formed auxin gradient potentially promotes cell elongation, which facilitates the morphological transition of peanut lateral branches from a spreading growth habit to an upright growth habit. This study identifies a novel functional gene, reveals key insights into the molecular regulatory mechanism of peanut branching habit, and provides elite germplasm resources for the molecular breeding of peanut cultivars with ideal plant architecture.