National Science ReviewPub Date : 2025-10-03eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf316
Qun Lu, Xuefei Li
{"title":"Internationalconference honors pioneers in quantitative microbial physiology and ecology.","authors":"Qun Lu, Xuefei Li","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The first Quantitative Microbial Physiology and Ecology (QMPE) Conference and a special ceremony for the 2nd Charles E. Helmstetter Prize was held in Shenzhen, China.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf316"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12499411/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145244742","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 : 2025-09-22eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf389
Yuanhong Wang, Xingming Huang, Min Jiang, Qing Lin, Wenqiang Zheng, Yuan Sun, Liang Liu, Xinhua Peng, Zhengguo Zhao, Jiangfeng Du
{"title":"Quantum sensors in space: unveiling the invisible universe.","authors":"Yuanhong Wang, Xingming Huang, Min Jiang, Qing Lin, Wenqiang Zheng, Yuan Sun, Liang Liu, Xinhua Peng, Zhengguo Zhao, Jiangfeng Du","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf389","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf389","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High-speed China Space Station, equipped with in-orbit quantum nuclear-spin sensors, would be a powerful tool for exploring new interactions beyond the Standard Model.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf389"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12492181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145232797","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 : 2025-09-16eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf391
Xiuzhen Li
{"title":"Towards the inclusion of managed macroalgal ecosystems in the IPCC greenhouse gas inventory.","authors":"Xiuzhen Li","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf391","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf391"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12516121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145292939","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 : 2025-09-10eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf380
Shunhan Jia, Xiaofu Sun, Buxing Han
{"title":"Selective electrocatalytic upgrading of nitrogen oxides into hydroxylamine and hydrazine via special routes.","authors":"Shunhan Jia, Xiaofu Sun, Buxing Han","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf380","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Perspective discusses the design principles of electrocatalytic systems for upgrading nitrogen oxides (NOx) into unconventional products, such as hydroxylamine and hydrazine, while traditional NOx electroreduction produces ammonia or dinitrogen.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf380"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12505491/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145258546","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 : 2025-09-09eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf376
Chunhua Wang, Ning Han, Yang Ding, Yun Hau Ng, Bao-Lian Su
{"title":"Metal halide perovskites for photocatalytic applications: opportunities and challenges.","authors":"Chunhua Wang, Ning Han, Yang Ding, Yun Hau Ng, Bao-Lian Su","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf376","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf376","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work summarizes recent progress in metal halide perovskites for photocatalytic applications and pinpoints the critical challenges that currently limit their practical deployment.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf376"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12485601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145213158","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 : 2025-09-09eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf377
Songyuan Tao, Chengyu Zheng, Bai Yang
{"title":"Precursor-dependent photoluminescence diversity in carbonized polymer dots: the luminophores and crosslinking.","authors":"Songyuan Tao, Chengyu Zheng, Bai Yang","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf377","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf377","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Carbonized polymer dots (CPDs) represent a prominent subclass of luminescent carbon dots (CDs), distinguished by their unique core-shell nanostructures and exceptional optical performance. Over the past decade, CPDs have experienced significant growth, as they provide a promising approach to fabricate efficient luminophores at the nanoscale through simple and environmentally friendly methods. Various precursors, including small molecules, polymers and biomass, have proved to be effective for the synthesis of CPDs, leading to a diversity of photoluminescence (PL) properties, albeit with ongoing debates regarding the origins of PL. Herein, the precursor-dependent luminophores and crosslinking reactions are expounded in several representative CPDs to reveal the enhanced PL emissive behaviors that differ from traditional small molecules or polymers. We emphasize the synergistic contributions of molecular-state fluorophores and crosslink-enhanced emission effect in highly luminous CPDs. Additionally, we propose future development trends for CD materials to foster open discussion and guidance.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf377"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12499410/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145244770","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 : 2025-09-08eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf374
Da Lin, Jianjun Wang, Yu-Qiu Ye, Tian-Lun Zhang, Ming-Ming Sun, Wei-Dong Kong, Long-Jun Ding, Michael R Gillings, Thulani P Makhalanyane, Mao Ye, Dong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu
{"title":"Eco-evolutionary strategies drive viral diversification in nutrient-poor soils across elevation gradients.","authors":"Da Lin, Jianjun Wang, Yu-Qiu Ye, Tian-Lun Zhang, Ming-Ming Sun, Wei-Dong Kong, Long-Jun Ding, Michael R Gillings, Thulani P Makhalanyane, Mao Ye, Dong Zhu, Yong-Guan Zhu","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf374","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf374","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As global change intensifies, understanding the eco-evolutionary trade-offs among soil viral communities and the maintenance of their functional traits across environmental gradients is crucial for predicting soil health and ecological functions. Yet how viral communities respond to environmental change remain poorly understood. Using metavirome sequencing along an elevation gradient, which serves as an ideal proxy for environmental variations, we reveal the extensive diversity of viruses and expand the information on soil viruses in Africa. Compared to climate pressures associated with increasing elevation, nutritional constraints driven by higher elevation were more closely associated with significant differentiation in viral populations, mainly driven by an increase in both lytic viruses and functional diversity. These findings were consistently supported by field microcosm experiments on the same mountainsides and the global data sets from other mountain regions. With increasing elevation, phages undergo greater diversifying selection, encoded more bacterial life history strategy genes associated with stress tolerance and ruderals/opportunist, and had a higher proportion of unannotated functions, potentially playing a role in host carbon assimilation in nutrient-poor environments. These findings provide insights into the biogeography and ecological roles of viruses and serve as a foundation for understanding the response of soil viruses to global change.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf374"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12501426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251990","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":"Intrinsic stabilization of vacancies in catalysts <i>via</i> high-entropy approach for lithium-sulfur batteries.","authors":"Chenghao Zhao, Yang Huang, Pengyu Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Yu Zhang, Naiqing Zhang","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf375","DOIUrl":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf375","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oxygen vacancies (V<sub>O</sub>) have been considered as a significant strategy to improve the performance of catalysts in Li-S batteries. However, the highly active V<sub>O</sub> are a double-edged sword, as their instability can undermine long-term cycle performance. Therefore, it is essential to stabilize V<sub>O</sub> while maintaining their high activity. Here, five different metal elements are dissolved into the lattice structure of two-dimensional oxides to construct intrinsically stable and active V<sub>O</sub> for better lithium-sulfur catalysts. The unique electronic and crystal structure in high-entropy oxide endows the changed differentiated formation energies and high diffusion energy barrier of V<sub>O</sub> to form intrinsically stable V<sub>O</sub>. The Li-S batteries with stable V<sub>O</sub> in the electrocatalyst deliver a high specific capacity of 1301 mAh g<sup>-1</sup> at 0.2C and low capacity fading of 0.032% per cycle after 2000 cycles at 1C. This work will inspire efforts on breaking the trade-off between activity and stability in heterogeneous catalysis beyond Li-S batteries.</p>","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf375"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12499420/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145244748","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 : 2025-09-08eCollection Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf369
Jinbin Cao
{"title":"Unprecedented extreme depletion of Earth's ionosphere during the May 2024 super geomagnetic storm revealed by the Chinese Meridian Project.","authors":"Jinbin Cao","doi":"10.1093/nsr/nwaf369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18842,"journal":{"name":"National Science Review","volume":"12 10","pages":"nwaf369"},"PeriodicalIF":17.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12475563/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145186236","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}