{"title":"Structural shifts in China’s oil and gas CH4 emissions with implications for mitigation efforts","authors":"Junjun Luo, Helan Wang, Hui Li, Bo Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58237-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58237-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) is a potent and short-lived climate pollutant, with the oil and gas sectors emerging as an important contributor. China exhibited a substantial expansion of oil and gas infrastructures over recent years, but the CH<sub>4</sub> emission accounting tends to be incomplete and uncertain. Here, we construct a CH<sub>4</sub> emission database of China’s oil and gas systems from 1990–2022 with 80% of emissions tracked as refineries, facilities, pipelines, and field sources. Results show that China’s oil and gas CH<sub>4</sub> emissions have risen from 0.5[0.5–0.6] TgCH<sub>4</sub> yr<sup>−1</sup> in 1990 to 4.0[3.7–4.4] TgCH<sub>4</sub> yr<sup>−1</sup> in 2022, primarily driven by the growing demand for natural gas during the energy transition. The spatial details provided are critical for characterizing emission hotspots, especially in unconventional gas production fields and densely populated eastern regions. This long-time series and spatially explicit CH<sub>4</sub> emission database can contribute to informed policy decisions and swift climate action.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"243 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tianyi Zhu, Shibin Zhao, Bochao Xu, Dongyan Liu, M. Bayani Cardenas, Huaming Yu, Yan Zhang, Xiaogang Chen, Kai Xiao, Lixin Yi, Hyung-Mi Cho, Sumei Liu, Ziliang Zhang, Ergang Lian, William C. Burnett, Guangquan Chen, Zhigang Yu, Isaac R. Santos
{"title":"Large scale submarine groundwater discharge dominates nutrient inputs to China’s coast","authors":"Tianyi Zhu, Shibin Zhao, Bochao Xu, Dongyan Liu, M. Bayani Cardenas, Huaming Yu, Yan Zhang, Xiaogang Chen, Kai Xiao, Lixin Yi, Hyung-Mi Cho, Sumei Liu, Ziliang Zhang, Ergang Lian, William C. Burnett, Guangquan Chen, Zhigang Yu, Isaac R. Santos","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58103-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58103-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a nutrient source to coastal waters. However, most SGD estimates are restricted to a local scale and hardly distinguish contributions from fresh (FSGD) and recirculated (RSGD) SGD. Here, we compiled data on radium/radon of groundwater (<i>n</i> ~ 2000) and seawater (<i>n</i> ~ 10,000) samples along ~18,000 km of China’s coastal seas to resolve large scale FSGD and RSGD and their associated nutrient loads. Nearshore-scale FSGD ( ~ 3.56 × 10<sup>8</sup> m<sup>3</sup> d<sup>−1</sup>) was only 2% of the total SGD but comparable to RSGD in terms of nutrient loads. Despite large uncertainties quantified via Monte Carlo simulations, SGD was a dominant contributor to China’s coastal nutrient budgets, with dissolved inorganic nitrogen, phosphorus and silicate fluxes of ~395, 2.9, and 581 Gmol a<sup>−1</sup>, respectively. Total SGD accounted for 19–54% of nutrient inputs, exceeding inputs from atmospheric deposition and rivers. Overall, SGD helps sustaining primary production along one of the most human-impacted marginal seas on Earth.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia Semprich, Justin Filiberto, Matthew Weller, Jennifer Gorce, Nolan Clark
{"title":"Metamorphism of Venus as driver of crustal thickness and recycling","authors":"Julia Semprich, Justin Filiberto, Matthew Weller, Jennifer Gorce, Nolan Clark","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58324-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58324-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The composition and thickness of the venusian crust and their dependence on thermal gradients and geodynamic setting are not well constrained. Here, we use metamorphic phase transitions and the onset of melting to determine the maximum crustal thickness of basaltic plains in different tectonic settings. Crustal thickness is limited to ~40 km in a stagnant lid regime with a low thermal gradient of 5 °C/km due to density overturn and delamination. In contrast, the maximum crustal thickness in a mobile lid regime with a high thermal gradient of 25 °C/km is restricted to ~20 km due to the onset of crustal melting. The thickest the crust can be is ~65 km for a basaltic crust with a thermal gradient of 10 °C/km. Our models show that a venusian basaltic crust cannot be thicker than 20–65 km without either causing delamination and crustal recycling or melting and producing volcanic eruptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yifan Qi, Xingyu Jia, Jingyi Wang, Weiwei Yang, Yihan Miao, Xinlun Cai, Guanhao Wu, Yang Li
{"title":"1.79-GHz acquisition rate absolute distance measurement with lithium niobate electro-optic comb","authors":"Yifan Qi, Xingyu Jia, Jingyi Wang, Weiwei Yang, Yihan Miao, Xinlun Cai, Guanhao Wu, Yang Li","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58018-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58018-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>AI-empowered autonomous vehicles must sense the fast-changing three-dimensional environments with high speed and precision. However, the tradeoff between acquisition rate and non-ambiguity range prevents most LiDARs from achieving high-speed absolute distance measurement. Here we demonstrate a lithium niobate electro-optic comb-enabled ultrafast absolute distance measurement method — repetition rate-modulated frequency comb (RRMFC). We achieved an integrated lithium-niobate phase modulator with a half-wave voltage of 1.47 V, leading to over 50 sidebands and a repetition rate can be tuned over 12 GHz in 4 μs. Leveraging these unique features, RRMFC can coherently measure the distance by detecting interference peaks in the time domain, leading to acquisition rates up to 1.79 GHz and a large non-ambiguity range. This single-channel acquisition rate is over 4 orders of magnitude higher than the state-of-the-art absolute distance measurement system. Thus, RRMFC-based LiDAR allows autonomous vehicles to sense the fine details of a fast-changing environment using a single laser.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang-yang Tan, Yong-rui Chen, Wei-jie Fu, Wei-Jia Li
{"title":"Universality of pseudo-Goldstone damping near critical points","authors":"Yang-yang Tan, Yong-rui Chen, Wei-jie Fu, Wei-Jia Li","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58170-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58170-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Real-time dynamics of strongly correlated systems, in particular its critical dynamics near phase transitions, have been always on the cutting edge of studies in diverse fields of physics, e.g., high energy physics, condensed matter, holography, etc. In this work, we investigate the critical damping of collective modes associated with spontaneous breaking of approximate symmetries, which are called pseudo-Goldstone modes, in strongly correlated systems. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh field theory, we find a universal pseudo-Goldstone damping via the critical O(<i>N</i>) model that has never been found before by other approaches. Different from the conventional damping found in holography and hydrodynamics, the new one is controlled by critical fluctuations, hence is invisible in mean-field systems or strongly correlated systems with classical gravity duals. Since the critical damping depends solely on the universalities of the critical point, irrespective of the microscopic details, our conclusion should be applicable to a wide class of interacting systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dongliang Gong, Junyi Yang, Shu Zhang, Shashi Pandey, Dapeng Cui, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Lukas Horak, Evguenia Karapetrova, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Lin Hao, Yang Zhang, Jian Liu
{"title":"Large asymmetric anomalous Nernst effect in the antiferromagnet SrIr0.8Sn0.2O3","authors":"Dongliang Gong, Junyi Yang, Shu Zhang, Shashi Pandey, Dapeng Cui, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Lukas Horak, Evguenia Karapetrova, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Lin Hao, Yang Zhang, Jian Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58020-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58020-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A large anomalous Nernst effect is essential for thermoelectric energy-harvesting in the transverse geometry without external magnetic field. It’s often connected with anomalous Hall effect, especially when electronic Berry curvature is believed to be the driving force. This approach implicitly assumes the same symmetry for the Nernst and Hall coefficients, which is however not necessarily true. Here we report a large anomalous Nernst effect in antiferromagnetic SrIr<sub>0.8</sub>Sn<sub>0.2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> that defies the antisymmetric constraint on the anomalous Hall effect imposed by the Onsager reciprocal relation. The observed spontaneous Nernst thermopower quickly reaches the sub-<i>μ</i>V/K level below the Néel transition around 250 K, which is comparable with many topological antiferromagnetic semimetals and far excels other magnetic oxides. Our analysis indicates that the coexistence of significant symmetric and antisymmetric contributions plays a key role, pointing to the importance of extracting both contributions and a new pathway to enhanced anomalous Nernst effect for transverse thermoelectrics.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defect-based Lewis pairs on hydrophobic MnO mesocrystals for robust and efficient ozone decomposition","authors":"Jingling Yang, Ziran Yi, Jialin Li, Haojie Dong, Chunyang Zhai, Tengda Ding, Yingtang Zhou, Mingshan Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58257-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58257-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Catalytic ozone decomposition is a promising technique for eliminating ozone from the environment. However, developing redox-active catalysts that efficiently decompose ozone while maintaining robust performance under high humidity remains challenging. Herein, we develop a hydrophobic carbon-coated mesocrystalline MnO (Meso-MnO@C) featuring a high density of manganese vacancies (V<sub>Mn</sub>)-based Lewis pairs (LPs) for catalytic ozone decomposition. The presence of V<sub>Mn</sub> induces the electronic restructuring in MnO, leading to the formation of V<sub>Mn</sub>-Mn acidic sites and adjacent lattice oxygen atoms as basic sites. These LPs act as electron donors and acceptors, facilitating rapid electron transfer and lowering the energy barrier for O<sub>3</sub> conversion to O<sub>2</sub>. The hydrophobic carbon layer protects against water accumulation on Meso-MnO@C in humid conditions. As a result, the Meso-MnO@C achieves nearly 100% O<sub>3</sub> decomposition at a high weight hourly space velocity of 1500 L<span>⋅</span>g<sup>−1</sup> h<sup>−1</sup>, with rapid reaction kinetics and stable performance for 100 hours under 65% relative humidity.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quan Quan, Yuxuan Zhang, Haifan Li, Wei Wang, Pengshan Xie, Dong Chen, Weijun Wang, You Meng, Di Yin, Yezhan Li, Dongyuan Song, Lijie Chen, Shaohai Li, Cheng Yang, Takeshi Yanagida, Chun-Yuen Wong, SenPo Yip, Johnny C. Ho
{"title":"Atomic-scale self-rearrangement of hetero-metastable phases into high-density single-atom catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction","authors":"Quan Quan, Yuxuan Zhang, Haifan Li, Wei Wang, Pengshan Xie, Dong Chen, Weijun Wang, You Meng, Di Yin, Yezhan Li, Dongyuan Song, Lijie Chen, Shaohai Li, Cheng Yang, Takeshi Yanagida, Chun-Yuen Wong, SenPo Yip, Johnny C. Ho","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58163-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58163-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Maximizing metal-substrate interactions by self-reconstruction of coadjutant metastable phases can be a delicate strategy to obtain robust and efficient high-density single-atom catalysts. Here, we prepare high-density iridium atoms embedded ultrathin CoCeOOH nanosheets (CoCe-O-Ir<sub>SA</sub>) by the electrochemistry-initiated synchronous evolution between metastable iridium intermediates and symmetry-breaking CoCe(OH)<sub>2</sub> substrates. The CoCe-O-Ir<sub>SA</sub> delivers an overpotential of 187 mV at 100 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> and a steady lifespan of 1000 h at 500 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> for oxygen evolution reaction. Furthermore, the CoCe-O-Ir<sub>SA</sub> is applied as a robust anode in an anion-exchange-membrane water electrolysis cell for seawater splitting at 500 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> for 150 h. Operando experimental and theoretical calculation results demonstrate that the reconstructed thermodynamically stable iridium single atoms act as highly active sites by regulating charge redistribution with strongly <i>p</i>-<i>d</i>-<i>f</i> orbital couplings, enabling electron transfer facilitated, the adsorption energies of intermediates optimized, and the surface reactivity of Co/Ce sites activated, leading to high oxygen evolution performance. These results open up an approach for engineering metastable phases to realize stable single-atom systems under ambient conditions toward efficient energy-conversion applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ru Kong, R. Nathan Spreng, Aihuiping Xue, Richard F. Betzel, Jessica R. Cohen, Jessica S. Damoiseaux, Felipe De Brigard, Simon B. Eickhoff, Alex Fornito, Caterina Gratton, Evan M. Gordon, Avram J. Holmes, Angela R. Laird, Linda Larson-Prior, Lisa D. Nickerson, Ana Luísa Pinho, Adeel Razi, Sepideh Sadaghiani, James M. Shine, Anastasia Yendiki, B. T. Thomas Yeo, Lucina Q. Uddin
{"title":"A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results","authors":"Ru Kong, R. Nathan Spreng, Aihuiping Xue, Richard F. Betzel, Jessica R. Cohen, Jessica S. Damoiseaux, Felipe De Brigard, Simon B. Eickhoff, Alex Fornito, Caterina Gratton, Evan M. Gordon, Avram J. Holmes, Angela R. Laird, Linda Larson-Prior, Lisa D. Nickerson, Ana Luísa Pinho, Adeel Razi, Sepideh Sadaghiani, James M. Shine, Anastasia Yendiki, B. T. Thomas Yeo, Lucina Q. Uddin","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-58176-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58176-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The brain can be decomposed into large-scale functional networks, but the specific spatial topographies of these networks and the names used to describe them vary across studies. Such discordance has hampered interpretation and convergence of research findings across the field. We have developed the <i>Network Correspondence Toolbox</i> (NCT) to permit researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their novel neuroimaging results and multiple widely used functional brain atlases. We provide several exemplar demonstrations to illustrate how researchers can use the NCT to report their own findings. The NCT provides a convenient means for computing Dice coefficients with spin test permutations to determine the magnitude and statistical significance of correspondence among user-defined maps and existing atlas labels. The adoption of the NCT will make it easier for network neuroscience researchers to report their findings in a standardized manner, thus aiding reproducibility and facilitating comparisons between studies to produce interdisciplinary insights.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis E. Santos, Paulo Mattos, Thais L. Pinheiro, Ananssa Silva, Claudia Drummond, Felipe Kenji Sudo, Fernanda Barros-Aragão, Bart Vanderborght, Carlos Otávio Brandão, Sergio T. Ferreira, Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Fernanda G. De Felice
{"title":"Performance of plasma biomarkers for diagnosis and prediction of dementia in a Brazilian cohort","authors":"Luis E. Santos, Paulo Mattos, Thais L. Pinheiro, Ananssa Silva, Claudia Drummond, Felipe Kenji Sudo, Fernanda Barros-Aragão, Bart Vanderborght, Carlos Otávio Brandão, Sergio T. Ferreira, Fernanda Tovar-Moll, Fernanda G. De Felice","doi":"10.1038/s41467-025-56756-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56756-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite remarkable progress in the biomarker field in recent years, local validation of plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and dementia is still lacking in Latin America. In this longitudinal cohort study of 145 elderly Brazilians, we assess the diagnostic performance of plasma biomarkers, based on clinical diagnosis and CSF biomarker positivity. Follow-up data of up to 4.7 years were used to determine performance in predicting diagnostic conversions. Participants were clinically categorized as cognitively unimpaired (<i>n</i> = 49), amnestic mild cognitive impairment (<i>n</i> = 29), AD (<i>n</i> = 38), Lewy body dementia (<i>n</i> = 22), or vascular dementia (<i>n</i> = 7). Plasma Tau, Aβ<sub>40</sub>, Aβ<sub>42</sub>, NfL, GFAP, pTau231, pTau181 and pTau217 were measured on the SIMOA HD-X platform. Plasma pTau217 showed excellent performance determining CSF biomarker status in the cohort, either alone (ROC AUC = 0.94, 95% CI: [0.88–1.00]) or as a ratio to Aβ<sub>42</sub> (ROC AUC = 0.98, 95% CI: [0.94–1.00]). This study comprises an initial step towards local validation and adoption of dementia biomarkers in Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":19066,"journal":{"name":"Nature Communications","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143695136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}