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Prunus subgenus Cerasus comprises over 70 species with ornamental, edible, and medicinal value. Here, the authors assemble eight genomes from wild and cultivated Cerasus species, construct pangenome together with 13 public genomes, and uncover the evolutionary origin and genetic determinants of flower development.

Conventional rechargeable zinc-air batteries face slow kinetics and thermodynamic incompatibility. Here, the authors propose a dual-cathode zinc-ethylene glycol/air battery, enabling concurrent efficient electricity generation and electro-reforming of plastic wastes into high-value C2 chemicals.

Combining spin-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy and calculations, Zhou et al. report weak exciton-phonon interactions in 2D tin iodide perovskites, alleviating excited state polaronic screening effect and robust excitons, comparing to their lead counterparts.

The performance of π-conjugated polymers films is limited by the short exciton diffusion lengths due to local imperfections or variations in interchain packing. Here, the authors report on large-area submillimeter-scale spherulites achieved by treating a spin-coated polydiarylfluorene film under solvent vapor annealing.

Kinetic Wulff-shaped heteroepitaxial growth in halide perovskites enables the realization of well-defined 2D halide perovskite epitaxial heterostructures with deterministic slab thickness (n = 1–3) and high phase purity. Optoelectronic devices based on these heterostructures demonstrate substantial rectification ratios and reliable switching behaviours under optical or electrical inputs.

The energy disorders in the lateral direction of the junction in large-area photovoltaic modules are largely overlooked. Here, authors employ organic amidinium passivators to suppress the micro-inhomogeneity in the lateral energy landscapes and achieve high performance stable perovskite solar cells.

Structural variants are an underexplored source of genetic diversity. Here, the authors use phased pangenome graphs to improve detection of these variants in dairy cattle and link these variants to traits of economic importance.

Rational regulation of electronic structures to control CO₂ electroreduction pathways is challenging. Here, the authors report modulating the highest occupied orbital of Cu single-sites via electronic metal-support interaction, enabling switchable selectivity between multicarbons and methane.

Non-fused ring electron acceptors may have low synthetic costs but also exhibit poor crystallinity in organic solar cells. Zeng et al. use a binary solvent system to control the crystallization and phase separation of donor and acceptor materials, achieving over 19% efficiency.

This work transforms oxygen from an embrittling contaminant into a key asset in titanium alloys, simultaneously overcoming the strength-ductility trade-off and oxygen embrittlement.

A photocontrol dynamic water gate evaporator with light-adaptive dynamic salt discharge was developed in this study to solve the problem of salt crystallization on the solar evaporator’s surface, which achieves efficient evaporation and salt discharge.

The tumor suppressor GATA4 is frequently epigenetically silenced in lung cancer. In this study, Gao et al. demonstrate that GATA4 regulates the expression of TGFBR2 and that TGFRB1 inhibitors can synergise with chemotherapeutics to inhibit the growth of GATA4-deficient tumors in mice.

The p53 target FBP1 is elevated in senescent-like metabolic-dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis hepatocytes but suppressed through promoter hypermethylation and proteasomal degradation in most human hepatocellular carcinomas.

The Montreal Protocol globally phased out ozone-layer depleting CCl₄ by 2010. However, atmospheric measurements show eastern China emitted ~7.6 gigagrams/year in 2021–2022. Further, industrial sources of ongoing CCL₄ emissions are identified.

Amorphous metal catalysts often exhibit appealing catalytic properties, however, accurate control synthesis of amorphous nano-metal catalysts is a challenge. Here, the authors report a feasible strategy to prepare the amorphous Cu catalysts by supercritical CO₂ treatment followed by electroreduction. The resulted catalyst shows high selectivity towards multi-carbon products for CO₂ electroreduction.

The power conversion efficiencies of thick-film perovskite solar cells lag behind those with nanometre film thickness. Here, the authors rule out the restrictions of carrier lifetime on device performance and reveal the critical role of lattice strain in micron-scale thick perovskite films.

The pilot phase of PigGTEx, re-analyzing 5,457 published RNA-seq samples, presents a pan-tissue catalog of molecular quantitative trait loci. Cross-species comparisons identify traits with shared genetic regulation in humans.

Researchers demonstrate a single phase Mg₂Ni(Cu) alloy via atomic reconstruction to achieve the ideal integration of photothermal and catalytic effects, leading to a 6.1 wt. % H₂ reversible capacity with 95 % retention under 3.5 W cm⁻².

Cholangiocarcinoma can arise anywhere within the biliary tree and is classified by anatomical locations. Here, the authors utilised RNAseq from 438 CCA patients and propose a molecular classification system independent of location.

Achieving direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion from pure water using solely organic heterogeneous catalysts is still challenging. Here the authors report an all-organic semiconductor catalyst system for overall water splitting under visible to near-infrared light via triplet-triplet annihilation up conversion based on spin coupling.

The mutation of ARFTF17 results in the development of flint kernel architecture in dent maize by reducing excessive pericarp length. This discovery holds significant potential for enhancing grain quality in elite, high-yielding dent maize hybrids.

Understanding the emission patterns of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (Cl/BrPAHs), a group of persistent organic pollutants, is critical to control them. This study presents a global inventory and source attribution analysis of Cl/BrPAH emissions.

Genetic analyses of teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, identify a locus (THP9) that is associated with high seed protein content and increased nitrogen-use efficiency, suggesting that THP9 could have applications in crop breeding.

Structures of the dephosphorylation complex for phosphorylated eIF2α reveal how contacts with the regulatory PPP1R15A subunit mediate substrate selectivity, providing a paradigm for dephosphorylation reactions by diverse combinatorially assembled holophosphatases.

Structural determination and analysis of the PHR domain of plant CRY proteins suggest that blue-light perception causes the CRY oligomerization required for downstream signaling.

The cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors p18 and p27 confer advantage to the propagation of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). In this manuscript, the authors demonstrate that p18 is a potent negative regulator of HSC self-renewal, and identify novel small molecules putatively inhibiting p18 that promote HSC growth in culture and mouse transplant assays.

The cattle Genotype–Tissue Expression atlas of expression and splicing QTLs is generated from 7,180 uniformly re-processed RNA-seq samples. Integration with GWAS identifies candidate genes and variants associated with economically important traits.

A protein expression atlas of transcription factors charted onto cell lineage maps of Caenorhabditis elegans development that uncovers mechanisms of spatiotemporal cell fate patterning and regulators of embryogenesis.

The FarmGTEx Project aims to understand genetic control of gene activity under diverse biological and environmental contexts in domestic animals, providing a foundation for improving animal precision breeding, adaptation and human health.