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Charting brain morphology in international healthy and neurological populations

Liu et al. report Chinese normative lifespan brain charts showing later neurodevelopmental milestones than those detected in Western cohorts. Individual deviations from these norms are valuable in assessing clinical risk and outcomes.

Zhizheng Zhuo
Li Chai
Yaou Liu
Research29 Dec 2025
Nature Neuroscience

Volume: 29, P: 420-434
South American fire activity in spring is linked to Antarctic sea ice variability

An increase in sea ice concentrations near the Antarctic Peninsula can lead to hot, dry, and windy conditions over South America in spring and thus favor local fire activities, as revealed by observational records and climate model experiments.

Hongyi Hou
Li Zhang
Lixin Wu
ResearchOpen Access07 Mar 2026
Communications Earth & Environment

P: 1-10
Self-powered in-stent restenosis diagnosis via magnetoelastic stents

Chen et al. developed a self-powered smart magnetoelastic stent for real-time hemodynamic monitoring and stenosis detection.

Guorui Chen
Wi Jin Kim
Jun Chen
Research16 Feb 2026
Nature Cardiovascular Research

Volume: 5, P: 155-167
Cost-effective interfacial high-concentration electrolyte for stable lithium metal batteries

The practical application of high-concentration electrolytes are promising candidates for high-energy-density lithium metal batteries is hindered by sluggish ionic transfer and high costs. Here, authors show an interfacial high-concentration electrolyte (5 M LiTFSI) at the Li anode surface, maintaining a 1 M in the bulk, enabling a 506 Wh/kg Li-metal 6.8 Ah-pouch cell.

Wenya Wu
Tingting Li
Jiangxuan Song
ResearchOpen Access26 Feb 2026
Nature Communications

Volume: 17, P: 1-13
Iron-catalyzed three-component amino(radio)fluorination of alkenes to unprotected β-(radio)fluoroamines

Unprotected β-fluoroamines are important motifs in synthetic chemistry, offering versatility for the development of β-fluorinated nitrogen-containing compounds. Here, the authors disclose an iron-catalyzed three-component aminofluorination of alkenes using a hydroxylamine reagent and Et3N · 3HF, offering a direct entry to unprotected β-fluoroamines.

Yang Li
Yu Zhou
Junkai Fu
ResearchOpen Access05 Dec 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-13
SulfoxFluor-enabled deoxyazidation of alcohols with NaN₃

Azides are common moieties in chemical synthesis. Here the authors present a methodology to synthesize alkyl azides in one step from simple alcohols under mild conditions.

Junkai Guo
Xiu Wang
Jinbo Hu
ResearchOpen Access18 May 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-8
Rational electrolyte solvent screening for high-energy lithium metal batteries at low temperatures

Li-metal batteries suffer from sluggish kinetics at low temperatures. Here, authors propose a guideline for rational electrolyte solvent screening and design a class of asymmetric ethers, which bestows the Li metal pouch cell with a high specific energy of 345.3 Wh kg⁻¹ over 40 cycles at −40 °C.

Zehang Peng
Kui Ding
Qifeng Zheng
ResearchOpen Access09 Dec 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 17, P: 1-14
Efficient air purification using porous ceramic-based bubble-enhanced filtration system

Conventional wet purification systems face scalability and durability challenges. Junkai Ren and colleagues report a porous ceramic-based bubble-enhanced filtration system achieving scalable, durable, and renewable wet particle removal while enabling multifunctional air purification.

Junkai Ren
Ran Gao
Changqing Yang
ResearchOpen Access29 Nov 2025
Communications Engineering

Volume: 5, P: 1-12
Elemental composition analysis of calcium-based urinary stones via laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for enhanced clinical insights

Haijie Xie
Junkai Huang
Chunyu Liu
ResearchOpen Access29 Sept 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Neural network-assisted personalized handwriting analysis for Parkinson’s disease diagnostics

This study presents a diagnostic pen with ferrofluid ink that converts handwriting into sensing signals for Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnostics. In pilot studies, neural network-assisted analysis of collected handwriting signals accurately distinguished patients with PD, demonstrating the pen’s potential as a low-cost, scalable tool for accessible diagnostics.

Guorui Chen
Trinny Tat
Jun Chen
Research02 Jun 2025
Nature Chemical Engineering

Volume: 2, P: 358-368
LABind: identifying protein binding ligand-aware sites via learning interactions between ligand and protein

Here, authors present LABind, a ligand-aware deep learning framework for predicting binding sites of small molecules and ions, with the capacity to generalize to unseen ligands.

Zhijun Zhang
Lijun Quan
Qiang Lyu
ResearchOpen Access19 Aug 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
Divergent regioselective Heck-type reaction of unactivated alkenes and N-fluoro-sulfonamides

The control of regioselectivity in Heck-type reactions of unactivated alkenes is challenging. Here, the authors realize regiodivergent Heck-type reactions of unactivated alkenes and N-fluoro-sulfonamides.

Chunyang Zhao
Yang Li
Junkai Fu
ResearchOpen Access22 Oct 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-16
Exploring spatial visual characteristics of scenic archetypes through AI multimodal mapping methods in Hangzhou Westlake

Junkai Lan
Mei Liu
Qian Zhang
ResearchOpen Access16 Dec 2025
npj Heritage Science

Volume: 13, P: 1-23
A high-quality genome assembly highlights rye genomic characteristics and agronomically important genes

A high-quality genome assembly of Weining rye sheds new light on gene duplications and their effects on starch biosynthesis genes, gene expression features underlying early heading trait and putative domestication-associated chromosomal regions.

Guangwei Li
Lijian Wang
Daowen Wang
ResearchOpen Access18 Mar 2021
Nature Genetics

Volume: 53, P: 574-584
Synergetic regulation of SEI mechanics and crystallographic orientation for stable lithium metal pouch cells

The application of Li-metal batteries (LMBs) is impeded by unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and uncontrollable Li dendrites growth. Here, the authors present an YF₃/PMMA composite layer to achieve high-performance LMBs via the synergetic regulation of SEI mechanics and Li crystallography.

Yanhua Zhang
Rui Qiao
Jiangxuan Song
ResearchOpen Access25 May 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-12
A machine learning model for hub-height short-term wind speed prediction

Accurate short-term wind speed prediction is crucial for wind power systems. Authors propose a machine learning-based short-term wind prediction network using CNN-Transformer architecture, demonstrating strong transferability and robustness for predicting wind speeds in various climatic regions.

Zongwei Zhang
Lianlei Lin
Hangyi Yu
ResearchOpen Access03 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-18
Minimizing nanorobot swarm loss for near-infrared-responsive chemo-photothermal therapy

Magnetic nanorobot swarms are promising for biomedical applications, but transporting them over long distances in hash environments leads to significant swarm losses. Here, a multi-step “carriers-to-swarms” strategy protects and transports nanorobot swarms to tumor sites

Zerui Li
Xiaoxia Song
U Kei Cheang
ResearchOpen Access28 Nov 2025
Communications Materials

Volume: 6, P: 1-13
A low resistance circular diverter tee based on an improved random forest model

Ao Tian
Angui Li
Yingying Wang
ResearchOpen Access23 Jul 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-18
Shape-stabilized phase change material with highly thermal conductive matrix developed by one-step pyrolysis method

Shibin Wu
Yan Chen
Junkai Gao
ResearchOpen Access12 Jan 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
Improved magnetostriction in Galfenol alloys by aligning crystal growth direction along easy magnetization axis

Chao Zhou
Yapeng Liu
Sen Yang
ResearchOpen Access18 Nov 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Metallization and Electrical Transport Behaviors of GaSb under High-Pressure

Guozhao Zhang
Baojia Wu
Chunxiao Gao
ResearchOpen Access01 Jun 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-8
Prediction of pathogenic mutations in human transmembrane proteins and their associated diseases via utilizing pre-trained Bio-LLMs

MutDPAL leverages pre-trained biological large language models to integrate transmembrane environment with disease encoding features, enabling fine-grained classification of pathogenic mutations in transmembrane proteins across 15 disease categories.

Lexin Cao
Lijun Quan
Qiang Lyu
ResearchOpen Access15 Jul 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-15
Attention activation network for bearing fault diagnosis under various noise environments

Yu Zhang
Lianlei Lin
Zongwei Zhang
ResearchOpen Access06 Jan 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-19
Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Africa

The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has substantial impacts on the global climate. This Review outlines ENSO relationships with Africa, outlining their dynamics, impacts on precipitation and projected changes in the future.

Wenju Cai
Chris Reason
Joseph N. Mutemi
Reviews05 Aug 2025
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 503-520
Evaluation of cell type annotation reliability using a large language model-based identifier

The authors developed LICT, an LLM-based tool for cell type annotation combining multi-model integration and a “talk-to-machine” approach. LICT delivers interpretable, reliable results and outperforms existing tools in accuracy, efficiency, and consistency.

Wenjin Ye
Yuanchen Ma
Weijun Huang
ResearchOpen Access25 Sept 2025
Communications Biology

Volume: 8, P: 1-14
Quantification of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody by a pseudotyped virus-based assay

The production and titration of the SARS-CoV-2 S pseudotyped virus using a VSV-based pseudovirus production system in this protocol enable its use under biosafety level 2 conditions as well as in a neutralization assay to assess the level of neutralizing antibodies or molecular inhibitors in a sample.

Jianhui Nie
Qianqian Li
Youchun Wang
Protocols25 Sept 2020
Nature Protocols

Volume: 15, P: 3699-3715
Dataset on guided waves from long-term structural health monitoring under uncontrolled and dynamic conditions

Kang Yang
Zekun Yang
Joel B. Harley
ResearchOpen Access12 Jun 2025
Scientific Data

Volume: 12, P: 1-19
Retraction Note: Interactions between Th1 cells and Tregs affect regulation of hepatic fibrosis in biliary atresia through the IFN-γ/STAT1 pathway

Jie Wen
Ying Zhou
Wei Cai
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access07 Oct 2019
Cell Death & Differentiation

Volume: 27, P: 2295
Comprehensive analysis of the prognosis and immune infiltration of TMC family members in renal clear cell carcinoma

Wenbin Tang
Zhiyuan Shi
Junkai Wang
ResearchOpen Access19 Jul 2023
Scientific Reports

Volume: 13, P: 1-16
Correction: PCDH1 promotes progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via activation of NF-κB signalling by interacting with KPNB1

Zhihua Ye
Yingyu Yang
Junkai Zhang
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access09 Jan 2024
Cell Death & Disease

Volume: 15, P: 1-4
Centrifuge tests on the deformation law of pipelines crossing slopes with different water contents

Haidong Jia
Ming Yang
Junfeng Tang
ResearchOpen Access22 Aug 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-21
Is game-based therapy effective for treating cognitive deficits in adults with schizophrenia? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

Junkai Wang
Jie Zhang
Peipeng Liang
ResearchOpen Access16 Jul 2024
Translational Psychiatry

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Functional comparison of SARS-CoV-2 with closely related pangolin and bat coronaviruses

Jianhui Nie
Qianqian Li
Youchun Wang
ResearchOpen Access06 Apr 2021
Cell Discovery

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Design and application of virtual simulation teaching platform for intelligent manufacturing

Pengfei Zheng
Junkai Yang
Bo Wang
ResearchOpen Access05 Jun 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-19
A Twice Electrochemical-Etching Method to Fabricate Superhydrophobic-Superhydrophilic Patterns for Biomimetic Fog Harvest

Xiaolong Yang
Jinlong Song
Zhuji Jin
ResearchOpen Access18 Aug 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
PCDH1 promotes progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma via activation of NF-κB signalling by interacting with KPNB1

Zhihua Ye
Yingyu Yang
Junkai Zhang
ResearchOpen Access21 Jul 2022
Cell Death & Disease

Volume: 13, P: 1-12
Highly efficient reusable superhydrophobic sponge prepared by a facile, simple and cost effective biomimetic bonding method for oil absorption

Jiaqi Wang
Yan Chen
Junkai Gao
ResearchOpen Access07 Jun 2021
Scientific Reports

Volume: 11, P: 1-17
A missense mutation in Pitx2 leads to early-onset glaucoma via NRF2-YAP1 axis

Yeming Yang
Xiao Li
Xianjun Zhu
ResearchOpen Access29 Oct 2021
Cell Death & Disease

Volume: 12, P: 1-15
Influential nodes identification using network local structural properties

Bin Wang
Junkai Zhang
Jinfang Sheng
ResearchOpen Access03 Feb 2022
Scientific Reports

Volume: 12, P: 1-13
A promising and cost-effective biochar adsorbent derived from jujube pit for the removal of Pb(II) from aqueous solution

Junkai Gao
Yu Liu
Yan Chen
ResearchOpen Access04 May 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-13
Technological characterization of gold jewellery from the Sogdian tomb of Shi Jun (d. 579 CE) in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province

Panpan Tan
Junchang Yang
Junkai Yang
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-12
RETRACTED ARTICLE:Interactions between Th1 cells and Tregs affect regulation of hepatic fibrosis in biliary atresia through the IFN-γ/STAT1 pathway

Jie Wen
Ying Zhou
Wei Cai
ResearchOpen Access17 Mar 2017
Cell Death & Differentiation

Volume: 24, P: 997-1006

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