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This study presents an electrolyte-free electrochemical system that leverages dual electrocatalytic zones to effectively remove a wide range of recalcitrant pollutants across various water matrices, including low-conductivity organic wastewater.

The japonica allele of the amino acid transporter gene OsLHT1, differing from that in indica rice, enhances organic N use efficiency in high-organic-matter soils by recruiting a specific rhizosphere microbiota to boost amino acid production and uptake.

DECODE is a universal deconvolution framework for both cell types and cell states that can be applied to transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic data.

Limited genomic resources constrain our understanding of fern evolution and conservation. Here, the authors present the genome of Brainea insignis, a monotypic endangered fern, and identify evolutionary signatures to guide conservation strategies from comparative and population genomic analyses.

A study provides mechanistic insights into the roles of phosphate transporters OsPht1;9 and OsPht1;10 in arsenic uptake and accumulation in rice and highlights their potential for enhancing food security.

The authors identify AMsh glia, expressing both cold and heat receptors, function as a dual-mode thermosensory hub, bidirectionally modulating neural circuits to regulate various thermal behaviors in C. elegans.

A 10-year follow-up study of the HPV-16/18 bivalent vaccine shows that vaccination alters the natural history of high-risk HPV types, resulting in reduced HPV-16/18 infections while HPV-52 infections persist with decreased clearance and increased progression. The study shows that vaccinated populations have distinct HPV epidemiological profiles, indicating that current cervical cancer screening algorithms may be suboptimal.

By means of electron microscopy it is shown that two closely spaced crystalline ZnSe nanorods connected by twinning structures can form through a self-limiting self-assembly process. These colloidal nanorod couples have low photoluminescence polarization anisotropy, their composition can be changed by means of a cation-exchange approach, and could be used to investigate the electronic coupling between the individual nanorods.

Phellodendron amurense is a Tertiary relict species with significant ecological and medicinal value. Here, the authors report its genome assembly and reveal the involvement of CNMT gene family is berberine biosynthesis.

The low mechanical strength and insufficient lithium-ion conductivity of the solid-electrolyte interphase result in inhomogeneous lithium deposition. Here, the authors propose a new middle peak current charging protocol, guiding the nucleation and growth of densified lithium deposition and a solid-electrolyte interphase with improved mechanical strength and Li⁺ ion conductivity.

Conventional transparent wood preparation methods remove lignin and result in poor near-infrared selectivity. Here, the authors develop a lignin-enrichment approach, increasing the wood’s lignin content and achieving highly NIR-selective wood-based optical filters.

Previous studies showed inhibition of glycolytic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 disrupts podocyte function. The study shows that PGK1-serine axis regulates and drives aging and damage of podocytes.

Photonic integrated circuits allow laser displays to be flattened into a compact form factor while improving efficiency and colour performance.

3D covalent organic frameworks (COF) show interesting hierarchical arrangements of nanopores and open sites but their synthesis remains challenging. Here the authors report a fluorescent AIEgen-based 3D COF and demonstrate application as a coating material for white LEDs and for sensing of picric acid

Understanding the mechanism for supramolecular polymer assembly from nanoclusters bearing hierarchy and homochirality is challenging. Here, the authors report a cooperative self-assembly strategy using ionic complexes with chiral surfactants through a nucleation-elongation growth mechanism with chiral self-sorting and prepare a permeable membrane for the separation of histidine derivatives.

‘Ultrathin’ gold interlayers are shown to form nanoparticles that balance optical losses and electrical contact, enabling efficient perovskite–perovskite integration for scalable and durable triple-junction photovoltaics.

This study reveals that phosphorus and nitrogen deficiency alters the abundance and profiles of extrachromosomal circular DNA in rice, underscoring its crucial role in genome plasticity and stress adaptation, which has implications for agricultural performance.

Using single-cell and spatial molecular profiling of infarcted mouse and human hearts, Li, Ni, Wang and colleagues identify a subset of cardiac fibroblasts expressing CD248 that plays a critical role in fibroblast–T cell interaction, and show that disrupting this interaction with monoclonal antibodies or anti-CD248 chimeric antigen receptor T cells results in reduced cardiac fibrosis and improved function.

Lv et al. discover that homologous disordered regions of proteins linked to ALS/FTD and Parkinson’s, CHCHD10 and CHCHD2, form amyloid fibrils in vitro and that the structures of these fibrils are consistent with potential roles for them in disease.

Semiconductor quantum dots that simultaneously support blue and yellow emission offer a route to realizing efficient white light-emitting diodes.

Securing edge devices is challenging. The authors present a solution using reconfigurable physical unclonable functions built with carbon nanotube transistors, offering robust security against machine learning attacks and brute force cracking.

An EC-NBI-based CAD system with advanced multi-stage pre-training fills endoscopy’s real-time diagnosis gap for colorectal lesions. It was shown to outperform other supervised methods and guides real-time biopsies.

The peripheral nervous system plays a role in the development of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Here the authors show that HNSCC cancer cells promote the expression of caveolin-2 (Cav2) on neural cells, while Cav2-expressing neurons or glial cells induce a mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation phenotype in cancer cells to maintain cancer stemness.

van der Waals heterostructures and superlattices are interesting due to their emerging physical properties, but they are usually fabricated via complex top-down methods. Here, the authors report a chemical vapor transport method to synthesize NbSe₂-based 1T/1H superlattice single crystals, showing hybridized electronic properties from the constituent layers.

Intensive research efforts are underway to enable applications of layered lithium transition metal oxides in batteries. Here the authors report an oxidative chemical vapour deposition technique to conformally coat both the primary and the secondary particles of these oxides to unleash potential applications.

Wu and colleagues identify gene networks and transcription factors that control the differentiation of stem-like CD8+ CAR T cells into effector or exhausted CD8⁺ CAR T cells.

Tuoqi Wu and colleagues show that the transcriptional repressor BACH2 is required early after chronic viral infection to enforce a stem-like fate in activated CD8⁺ T cells. BACH2 acts to suppress genes that lead to the exhausted cell state.

Jun Wang and colleagues report whole-genome resequencing of 17 wild and 14 cultivated soybean accessions. They characterize population structure, patterns of linkage disequilibrium and selection in soybeans.