National Science ReviewPub Date : 2026-08-06eCollection Date: 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag475
Guixiang Zhou, Junxi Liu, Jiabao Zhang
{"title":"Impacts of multitrophic biological loop on soil carbon sequestration.","authors":"Guixiang Zhou, Junxi Liu, Jiabao Zhang","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag475","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwag475","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interactions among soil viruses, microbes and soil fauna form a unified soil biological loop that shapes microbial necromass and controls soil carbon storage. This work extends the microbial carbon pump theory by introducing the virus-mediated microbial carbon pump, offering a new framework to explain soil carbon sequestration under global change.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 16","pages":"nwag475"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13532577/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148875511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
National Science ReviewPub Date : 2026-08-05eCollection Date: 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag474
Yang Liu, Yongliao Zou, Chi Wang
{"title":"Moon Insight: a conceptual framework for future lunar exploration.","authors":"Yang Liu, Yongliao Zou, Chi Wang","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag474","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwag474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Moon Insight conceptual framework aims to map lunar lava tubes and understand their shapes and internal structures. It will use these natural underground spaces to study the Moon's interior and volcanic history, improve our understanding of how the Moon formed and evolved, and support future lunar bases, long-term human stays, scientific research, and resource use.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 16","pages":"nwag474"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13532574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148874230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
National Science ReviewPub Date : 2026-07-24eCollection Date: 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag455
Jie Qiu, Xing Yan, Di Zhao, Wei Hu, Xuran Li, Zelin Huang, Xiaoyuan Yan, Yongqiu Xia
{"title":"Climate-driven spatial reorganization of cropland nitrogen pollution hotspots toward arid and semi-arid regions.","authors":"Jie Qiu, Xing Yan, Di Zhao, Wei Hu, Xuran Li, Zelin Huang, Xiaoyuan Yan, Yongqiu Xia","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwag455","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cropland nitrogen (N) runoff contributes over 40% of riverine N loads globally, driving widespread aquatic eutrophication. The severity of this pollution is governed by the balance between N runoff and aquatic retention, yet how climate change will redistribute this risk across regions remains unclear. By integrating 1485 field observations into spatially explicit models across China, we show that climate change is creating new N pollution hotspots in arid and semi-arid regions. China's humid South currently dominates riverine cropland N export (0.31 vs. 0.16 Tg in arid regions). However, under SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5 scenarios, humid regions demonstrate hydrological resilience by 2050, with exports declining by ∼5% due to warming-enhanced aquatic retention. In contrast, cropland N export from dryland-dominated North surges by 18.8%-53.2%, driven by a nonlinear amplification of N runoff. These hydroclimatic shifts necessitate spatially adaptive strategies that prioritize cropland source reduction in the newly emerging arid and semi-arid hotspots.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 15","pages":"nwag455"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13471033/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148760775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
National Science ReviewPub Date : 2026-07-21eCollection Date: 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag447
Daniele Dini
{"title":"The need of a 'self-evolving' research platform in tribology.","authors":"Daniele Dini","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag447","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwag447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 16","pages":"nwag447"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13499219/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148795796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
National Science ReviewPub Date : 2026-07-20eCollection Date: 2026-08-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag445
Ming Shen, Tianci Qi, Juhua Luo, Zhigang Cao, Wei Zhi, Yunlin Zhang, Daniel A Maciel, Tiit Kutser, Anthony Gidudu, Zhe Sun, Steven Loiselle, Hongtao Duan
{"title":"Satellite mapping exposes global inequities in lake water quality across 145 countries.","authors":"Ming Shen, Tianci Qi, Juhua Luo, Zhigang Cao, Wei Zhi, Yunlin Zhang, Daniel A Maciel, Tiit Kutser, Anthony Gidudu, Zhe Sun, Steven Loiselle, Hongtao Duan","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwag445","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For the first time, global lake water quality can be assessed consistently across countries. Satellitemachine learning assessment of 16,409 lakes across 145 countries reveals that only two out of every three lakes meet SDG water quality standards, exposing profound inequalities in freshwater security that affect billions of people.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 15","pages":"nwag445"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13471035/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148760515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple hetero-redox centers in a phenazine-ketone scaffold for high-energy-density aqueous flow batteries toward durable energy storage.","authors":"Zhen Dong, Zhiwen Cui, Hao Fan, Feiyang Hu, Mengke Wen, Yixue Duan, Wenzhang Dong, Chengren Li, Mahalingam Ravivarma, Duanyang Kong, Jiangxuan Song","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwag423","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwag423","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organic redox flow batteries operating in alkaline media have attracted significant attention for their inherent safety and environmental compatibility. However, conventional quinone- and ketone-based anolytes suffer from low electron-transfer numbers (≤2 e<sup>-</sup> per molecule), irreversible isomerization and concentration-dependent side reactions, ultimately limiting their energy density and long-term cycling stability. Here, we introduce a molecular engineering strategy that leverages the conjugation of heterogeneous redox centers to fuse distinct redox-active motifs, thereby creating a new composite phenazine-ketone molecule capable of a six-electron transfer process. This multi-hetero-redox center fused scaffold not only overcomes the intrinsic limitations of conventional structures but also exhibits robust kinetics and chemical stability in an alkaline electrolyte. The resulting compound delivers a record capacity of 79.3 Ah L<sup>-1</sup>, and sustains stable operation over 3500 cycles (198.5 days), offering a viable pathway toward next-generation high-energy-density, durable and sustainable energy storage technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"13 16","pages":"nwag423"},"PeriodicalIF":18.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13525713/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148857505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}