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National forum of planetary science for early-career scientists in China

Planetary science is a rapidly growing research field in China. In March 2025, many hundreds of early-career planetary scientists gathered in Huangshan, China, to exchange the latest findings on this topic.

Jihua Hao
Yu Liu
Yuming Wang
News & Views02 May 2025
Nature Astronomy

Volume: 9, P: 626-627
Abiotic CO₂ reduction promoted by carbonate and phyllosilicate minerals on the primitive seafloor

Adsorption of trace transition-metal cations endows common Ca/Mg-carbonates and phyllosilicates with catalytic activity for electrochemical CO2 reduction under planetary conditions, potentially promoting prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life.

Yuan Zhong
Ning Zhang
Yujie Xiong
ResearchOpen Access09 Apr 2026
Nature Communications

Volume: 17, P: 1-10
Phyllosilicate adsorption limited phosphorus bioavailability in early ferruginous oceans

Dissolved Fe(II) could greatly enhance uptake of dissolved phosphorus by common phyllosilicate minerals in the Archean and Proterozoic ferruginous oceans, serving as a key mediator in early phosphorus cycling and habitability

Xing Cui
Zongbin Zhang
Jihua Hao
ResearchOpen Access06 Feb 2026
Nature Communications

Volume: 17, P: 1-12
Large slow-growing hydrophytes increase wetland carbon storage

Wetlands dominated by larger, slower-growing and highly hydrophytic plants, rather than those with higher functional diversity, tend to store more soil organic carbon.

Hao Liu
Jinquan Li
Ming Nie
Research02 Feb 2026
Nature Plants

Volume: 12, P: 294-307
Revisiting the greatness of Earth’s great oxidation

Advancements in modeling, proxy integration, geochronology, and clarity on the nature of Paleoproterozoic glaciations are essential to improve understanding of the Great Oxidation Event, according to a synthesis of the conditions before, during, and after Earth’s Great Oxidation Event.

Peter W. Crockford
Ichiko Sugiyama
Mojtaba Fakhraee
ReviewsOpen Access17 Apr 2026
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

Craig R. Walton
Sophia Ewens
Matthew A. Pasek
Amendments and Corrections22 May 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 547
Wetland productivity and stability increase more with average plant size than with plant functional diversity

Protecting healthy and stable wetlands is important for retaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Using a nationwide wetland survey in the United States, the authors find that wetland productivity and stability are more strongly associated with community-level plant traits than with plant functional diversity.

Hao Liu
Jianjun Xu
Ming Nie
ResearchOpen Access28 Nov 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-15
Active redox cycling of phosphorus on the early Earth

Phosphorus is a critical bio-limiting nutrient in Earth’s ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications reports high availability of phosphite for possibly biological uptake in the late Archean ocean, suggesting an active redox cycling of phosphorus on the early Earth.

Jihua Hao
Xing Li
Matthew Pasek
Comments & OpinionOpen Access17 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-4
The rocky road to organics needs drying

How complex organics form in a prebiotic world remains a missing key to establish where life emerged. The authors present a road to abiotic organic synthesis and diversification in hydrothermal contexts involving magmatism and rock hydration.

Muriel Andreani
Gilles Montagnac
Bénédicte Ménez
ResearchOpen Access21 Jan 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
Venus’ light slab hinders its development of planetary-scale subduction

The simulation of slab buoyancy in 2-D models shows that Venus’ light slabs, due to a less eclogitized crust, experience more resistance to subduction. Thus, plate tectonics might have been more difficult to develop on Venus than on Earth.

Junxing Chen
Hehe Jiang
Xu Chu
ResearchOpen Access10 Dec 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-9
Clinical characteristics and survival analysis in critical and non-critical patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a single-center retrospective case control study

Ran Tian
Wei Wu
Shuyang Zhang
ResearchOpen Access16 Oct 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Fano-resonant ultrathin film optical coatings

A thin-film optical coating exhibits Fano resonance showing promising applications in structural colouring of transparent objects and hybrid thermal and photovoltaic power generation.

Mohamed ElKabbash
Theodore Letsou
Chunlei Guo
Research04 Feb 2021
Nature Nanotechnology

Volume: 16, P: 440-446
A Large-scale Survey of CRF55_01B from Men-Who-Have-Sex-with-Men in China: implying the Evolutionary History and Public Health Impact

Xiaoxu Han
Yutaka Takebe
Hong Shang
ResearchOpen Access15 Dec 2015
Scientific Reports

Volume: 5, P: 1-8
Novel variation and de novo mutation rates in population-wide de novo assembled Danish trios

The generation of a national pan-genome, a population-specific catalogue of genetic variation, may advance the impact of clinical genetics studies. Here the Besenbacher et al. carry out deep sequencing and de novo assembly of 10 parent–child trios to generate a Danish pan-genome that provides insight into structural variation, de novomutation rates and variant calling.

Søren Besenbacher
Siyang Liu
Simon Rasmussen
ResearchOpen Access19 Jan 2015
Nature Communications

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
Silver-coated PMMA nanoparticles-on-a-mirror substrates as high-performance SERS sensors for detecting infinitesimal molecules

Pei Zeng
Yuting Zhou
Mengjie Zheng
ResearchOpen Access30 Dec 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

A review of aqueous phosphorus availability on the Earth’s early surface suggests a range of phosphorus sources supplied the prebiotic Earth, but that phosphorus availability declined as life evolved and altered geochemical cycling.

Craig R. Walton
Sophia Ewens
Matthew A. Pasek
Reviews17 Apr 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 399-409
Enhanced phosphorus regeneration linked to Ediacaran ocean oxygenation

Recycling of phosphorus played a role in Ediacaran ocean oxygenation events, according to an analysis of phosphorus speciation from black shales of the Doushantuo Formation, South China.

Dongtao Xu
Xinqiang Wang
Dongjie Tang
ResearchOpen Access20 Jun 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-7
Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes for Maize Starch Granule Size through Association Mapping

Na Liu
Zhanhui Zhang
Jihua Tang
ResearchOpen Access24 Sept 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-11
Exploring shared pathways and the shared biomarker ERRFI1 in Obstructive sleep apnoea and atherosclerosis using integrated bioinformatics analysis

Bowen Chen
Liping Dong
Dongmei Song
ResearchOpen Access12 Sept 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-14
The expanding network of mineral chemistry throughout earth history reveals global shifts in crustal chemistry during the Proterozoic

Eli K. Moore
Josh J. Golden
Stephanie J. Spielman
ResearchOpen Access23 Mar 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-9
Ginsenoside Rb1 exerts antiarrhythmic effects by inhibiting I_Na and I_CaL in rabbit ventricular myocytes

Zhipei Liu
Lv Song
Jihua Ma
ResearchOpen Access31 Dec 2019
Scientific Reports

Volume: 9, P: 1-11
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges

This review outlines the exciting developments in high-performance dielectric metalenses whilst highlighting the challenges of using dielectric metalenses to replace conventional optics in miniature optical systems.

Meiyan Pan
Yifei Fu
Yueqiang Hu
ReviewsOpen Access28 Jun 2022
Light: Science & Applications

Volume: 11, P: 1-32
Origin of high thermoelectric performance of FeNb_1−xZr/Hf_xSb_1−ySn_y alloys: A first-principles study

Xiwen Zhang
Yuanxu Wang
Jihua Zhang
ResearchOpen Access08 Sept 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-13
Genome-wide association analysis identifies loci governing mercury accumulation in maize

Zhan Zhao
Zhongjun Fu
Jihua Tang
ResearchOpen Access21 Mar 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-11
Nanostructures/TiN layer/Al₂O₃ layer/TiN substrate configuration-based high-performance refractory metasurface solar absorber

Pei Zeng
Yuting Zhou
Mengjie Zheng
ResearchOpen Access28 Oct 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges

Meiyan Pan
Yifei Fu
Yueqiang Hu
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access04 Jan 2023
Light: Science & Applications

Volume: 12, P: 1

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National forum of planetary science for early-career scientists in China

Abiotic CO₂ reduction promoted by carbonate and phyllosilicate minerals on the primitive seafloor

Phyllosilicate adsorption limited phosphorus bioavailability in early ferruginous oceans

Large slow-growing hydrophytes increase wetland carbon storage

Revisiting the greatness of Earth’s great oxidation

Publisher Correction: Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

Wetland productivity and stability increase more with average plant size than with plant functional diversity

Active redox cycling of phosphorus on the early Earth

The rocky road to organics needs drying

Venus’ light slab hinders its development of planetary-scale subduction

Clinical characteristics and survival analysis in critical and non-critical patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a single-center retrospective case control study

Fano-resonant ultrathin film optical coatings

A Large-scale Survey of CRF55_01B from Men-Who-Have-Sex-with-Men in China: implying the Evolutionary History and Public Health Impact

Novel variation and de novo mutation rates in population-wide de novo assembled Danish trios

Silver-coated PMMA nanoparticles-on-a-mirror substrates as high-performance SERS sensors for detecting infinitesimal molecules

Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

Enhanced phosphorus regeneration linked to Ediacaran ocean oxygenation

Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes for Maize Starch Granule Size through Association Mapping

Exploring shared pathways and the shared biomarker ERRFI1 in Obstructive sleep apnoea and atherosclerosis using integrated bioinformatics analysis

The expanding network of mineral chemistry throughout earth history reveals global shifts in crustal chemistry during the Proterozoic

Ginsenoside Rb1 exerts antiarrhythmic effects by inhibiting I_Na and I_CaL in rabbit ventricular myocytes

Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges

Origin of high thermoelectric performance of FeNb_1−xZr/Hf_xSb_1−ySn_y alloys: A first-principles study

Genome-wide association analysis identifies loci governing mercury accumulation in maize

Nanostructures/TiN layer/Al₂O₃ layer/TiN substrate configuration-based high-performance refractory metasurface solar absorber

Correction: Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges

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