Volume 12, Issue 4, April 2025

This paper outlines the current state of national-scale atmospheric inversion, at a time when not only the volume of observational data, but also institutional expectations, are increasing considerably.

A comprehensive accounting of greenhouse gas budget of China, including CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O, was reported for the period of 2000–2023. The budget not only harmonized detailed accounting for more than 40 flux terms, but also got verification from atmospheric inversions.

This study established a consistent estimation framework that integrates multiple methods to identify the spatiotemporal variations of agricultural CH₄ and N₂O emissions in China from 1980 to 2023. It revealed three distinct temporal stages of total emissions, reflecting the evolving trajectory of agriculture in China.

This article reviews the application of atmospheric inversions in verifying China’s CO₂ and CH₄ budgets, highlighting key challenges and offering recommendations for further improvement.

China’s natural ecosystems play a crucial role in the balance of methane and nitrous oxide, two powerful greenhouse gases. This review highlights their emission patterns, gaps in current understanding, and offers strategies to better manage emissions and enhance carbon sequestration.

Two-dimensional semiconductors demonstrate unprecedented stability in extreme space conditions, enabling next-generation electronics for advanced space technologies in harsh cosmic environments.

This study presents a novel method using spin quantum sensors to explore temporal variations of fundamental constants, significantly expanding the frequency range and providing constraints on scalar dark matter.

The gigantic-oxidative atomic-layer-by-layer epitaxy (GOALL-Epitaxy) method substantially augments the oxidation power by orders of magnitude, enabling atomically precise construction of artificially designed metastable complex oxide structures.

This study introduces an Artificial Intelligence (AI) empowered search engine to accelerate the discovery of altermagnetic materials under the condition of limited labeled samples, demonstrating the potential of AI-driven methods to identify functional materials with novel properties.

The first deep-sea experimental application of diamond quantum vector magnetometer.

This work demonstrates the first realization of an in-orbit cold atom gyroscope using the China Space Station Atom Interferometer, representing the emergence of a space quantum inertial sensing epoch.

Tidal forces induce significant seismic velocity changes in the Anninghe fault zone, offering new insights into their role in stress perturbations within fault fracture zones.

A voltage-controlled dendrite rearrangement strategy is proposed to address the dendrite issues in metal anode batteries, which leverages the self-discharge process to eliminate generated dendrites, resetting cell stability and extending lifespans.

An in-situ fabricated gel polymer electrolyte, featuring a localized high concentration solvation structure, was fabricated for high-voltage lithium metal batteries, achieving ultra-long cycling stability and industry-level safety.

This study demonstrates the achievement of a significant p-d magnetic exchange interaction in metal-nanographene coordination complexes, laying the groundwork for the design and customization of extended radical metal-organic frameworks with collective quantum magnetic properties.

Combining the explicit topology optimization and graph convolutional neural network, a structural genome database is constructed and provides a unified design toolbox for various mechanical metamaterials.

An artificial solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) with upshifting Fermi level and cation screening channel enables ultrafast desolvation of [Zn(H₂O)₆]²⁺ in the outer Helmholtz layer through non-coordinating charge transfer process, realizing a robust Zn anode.

Breaking the dilemma of desolvation and ion-transport kinetics in weakly solvated electrolytes for a dendrite-free Li-based anode.

Self-healing lyophilized hydrogel powders create a tough coating on magnetic liquid metals through rolling and hydrating, enabling effective containment and offering great potential for capsule robots in remote thermal ablation operation.

This study leverages confined spaces to achieve selective hydrogenation of graphene through permeating protons, producing highly structurally asymmetric hydrogenated graphene, offering novel insights into the fabrication and properties of hydrogenated graphene.

This work puts forward a high-entropy phase separation concept to promote the recovery dynamics of thermal-stiffening hydrogels without compromising their exceptional stiffening response.

A comprehensive, large-scale 2-bit millimeter-wave programmable metasurface system for smart base-station applications with precise and wide 2D beamforming characteristics.

State-of-the-art machine learning techniques and computational methods are transforming the synthesis of inorganic materials, providing innovative solutions to accelerate advances of experimental synthesis.

This review explores the groundbreaking potential of corrosion-resistant single-atom catalysts in enabling efficient and sustainable hydrogen production through direct seawater electrolysis.

This review presents recent advancements in bioinformatics Foundation Models (FMs) that employed in a variety of downstream tasks, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and single cell analysis.

Former Director General of China CDC George Fu Gao talked about the 'the next pandemic' from a scientific perspective, and calls on the world to collaborate for global health.