A team of researchers shows that a rare and extreme annular warming pattern in the tropical Pacific, combined with the accumulation of warm water in the upper western Pacific in spring 2026, will collectively drive a super El Niño event toward the end of this year.

A research paper by scientists from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China developed a water-responsive self-curling adhesive conduit to achieve adaptive wrapping and suture-free repair for peripheral nerve injury (PNI).

The new research paper, published on Mar. 27 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, developed an innovative water-responsive self-curling adhesive conduit inspired by pinecone scale deformation, offering a transformative suture-free solution for PNI repair.

A review paper by scientists from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Science provided a comprehensive overview of cyborg animals within the framework of animal taxonomy, summarizing the current state of research from a zoological perspective.

The new research paper, published on Mar. 26 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, delivers a systematic, holistic overview of cyborg animals—revolutionary biohybrid robots that merge living organisms innate biological capabilities with artificial electromechanical control, addressing the fundamental limitations of traditional rigid silicon-based robots.

Quantum coherence is a fundamental mechanism driving ultrafast molecular reaction dynamics, playing a decisive role in processes such as light-induced ultrafast vision molecular isomerization and dissociation. However, due to the complexity of highly excited states in polyatomic molecules and interference from decoherence processes, directly observing vibrational quantum coherence signals from excited states has long been a major experimental challenge. This study, using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy, clearly resolves quantum beat signals resulting from interference between different vibrational states during the ultrafast predissociation dynamics of excited SF6 molecules. By combining high-precision calculations of the excited state potential energy surface and quantum dynamics simulations, the vibrational levels involved in the quantum coherence process are identified, and the lifetimes of the predissociating vibrational states are quantitatively analyzed. This work opens new avenues for understanding the role of quantum coherence in complex photo-induced ultrafast chemical reactions and ultimately for achieving active control over them.

A new satellite-based analytical framework enables accurate estimation of crop sowing and emergence dates at the field scale.