A Pusan National University study reveals that sustainability communication may depend not only on the message itself but also on the sequence in which the environmental information is presented. The study reveals that an initial exposure to environmental degradation can heighten early attentional engagement and emotional arousal, while a subsequent positive green solution creates a contrast-based shift in emotional valence that drives stronger pro-environmental behaviors.  

No-code biological modeling: BSC researchers developed open-access tools (MCP servers) that connect AI agents with specialized computational biology software, allowing complex multicellular models to be built through simple conversation.

From months to 10 minutes: The framework enables experimental biologists to generate initial 3D tumor digital twin prototypes in under 10 minutes without writing a single line of code or mastering complex software.

Accelerating cancer research: Published in npj Systems Biology and Applications, the study demonstrates how targeted, iterative AI interactions ensure reproducibility, paving the way for AI-assisted modeling of complex diseases.

A research team at the Faculty of Engineering of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), led by Professor Ruibang Luo from the School of Computing and Data Science and Professor Can Li from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has developed Gungnir, a novel blockchain-inspired DNA data storage codec. The breakthrough framework significantly improves digital information recovery from severely damaged DNA sequences, extending the practical lifespan of DNA data archives from under a decade to centuries.

Researchers have developed a key-decoupled circuit-model blind quantum computation protocol that enhances privacy protection in delegated quantum computing while reducing the operational burden on the client. By independently generating encryption and decryption keys, the protocol avoids gate-by-gate propagation of decryption information and conceals the target operation within its Pauli equivalence class. A low-overhead statistical verification strategy based on randomly sampled Pauli observables is further introduced to detect deviations by the quantum server. Proof-of-principle experiments on an IBM superconducting quantum processor, together with multi-qubit numerical simulations, demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of the approach for privacy-preserving quantum cloud computing.

In a paper published in Science China Chemistry, a research team led by Professors Atsuhiro Osuka and Jianxin Song at Hunan Normal University developed a concise synthetic method for the single, double, triple, and quadruple installations of directly fused hemiporphycenes at the periphery of Ni(II) porphyrin. They subjected the Ni(II) complexes to demetallation under acidic conditions, which furnished the corresponding free-base compounds, and efficiently converted these to the corresponding Zn(II) congeners. The resulting hemiporphycene-fused porphyrins displayed nonplanar distorted structures, panchromatic absorptions with red-shifted and enhanced Q bands, and multiple reversible redox waves.

A new study published in Science China Earth Sciences presents a comprehensive plan for scientific ocean drilling in the Huatung Basin, a key region in the western Pacific. Researchers propose a four-site drilling strategy for China’s new drilling vessel, Mengxiang, to resolve long-standing debates about the basin's age and the origin of the adjacent Gagua Ridge. The plan aims to determine if the Huatung Basin is a remnant of Mesozoic oceanic crust and to clarify the region's tectonic evolution, marking a potential shift for China’s role in leading international ocean drilling.