In Situ Investigations of the Interfacial Reactions at Cathodes in Solid-State Lithium-Oxygen Batteries: Challenges and Advances
Available online 13 May 2026
Solid-state lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) batteries are considered promising next-generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical energy density and improved safety. However, their practical...
UniVector: Unified Vector Extraction via Instance-Geometry Interaction
Available online 13 May 2026
Flexible self-powered sensor array based on robust composite electret for proximity and tactile sensing in harsh environments
Available online 12 May 2026
Flexible self-powered sensors have promising applications in wearable electronics, owing to their flexibility, high sensitivity, and facile fabrication. However, achieving reliable operation in harsh...
De Novo Reconstitution of Quadrupedal DNAzyme Walkers for Accurate Electrochemiluminescence Monitoring of BER cascade enzymes
Available online 12 May 2026
Base excision repair (BER) is essential for maintaining genomic stability, and its dysfunction is implicated in various diseases. However, accurate quantification of BER cascade enzymes in complex systems...
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Small-Molecule Therapeutics Sail Between Scylla and Charybdis Toward Clinical Breakthroughs
Available online 12 May 2026
•This review ruminates on two decades of RSV small-molecule discovery efforts, revealing that limited antiviral potency, inadequate oral exposure, delayed dosing, and rapid resistance mutations drive...
Macrophage metabolic-inflammatory coupling drives diabetic nephropathy progression via tricarboxylic acid cycle-NF-κB crosstalk
Available online 12 May 2026
•Spatial multi-omics reveals macrophage metabolic-inflammation coupling drives diabetic nephropathy progression.•TCA cycle fragmentation via reduced ACO1 couples with decreased PLAU to hyperactivate...
Three-dimensional properties of asymmetrically driven reconnection observed in SPERF-AREX experiments
Available online 11 May 2026
Magnetic reconnection involves the topological reconfiguration of magnetic field lines and drives fast energy release. It occurs extensively in space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas. Nevertheless,...
α-Synuclein bound to planar membrane orchestrates self-multimerization and vesicle association
Available online 11 May 2026
Alpha-Synuclein (α-Syn), a presynaptic protein implicated in Parkinson's disease (PD). While α-Syn-lipid interactions mediate both physiological synaptic vesicle (SV) regulation and pathological aggregation,...
Intraoperative Video Analysis in Laparoscopic Robotic Surgery: A Literature Review
Available online 9 May 2026
Intraoperative video analysis has emerged as a pivotal technology in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, enabling the interpretation of laparoscopic visual streams to enhance surgical precision,...
Molybdenum isotope constraints on the genesis of alkaline ocean island basalts from Madeira hotspot
Available online 9 May 2026
Plate subduction transports crustal materials (e.g., oceanic crust) into the deep mantle, generating mantle compositional heterogeneities. However, the transformation and long-term evolution of these...
Quantifying microbial contribution to particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in cropland soils
Available online 6 May 2026
•A survey of cropland soils combined with a global meta-analysis disentangled microbial contributions to SOM fractions.•Microbial biomass contributes to both POM and MAOM, while necromass is a strong...
Actuation strategies and applications for high-output power soft robots
Available online 5 May 2026
Recent breakthroughs in soft robotics have enabled transformative applications in manipulation, surgery, rehabilitation, and confined space exploration, driven by versatile smart materials that sense...
Multispectral Photoacoustic Microscopy and NIR-II Fluorescence Imaging of TREM2-Positive Microglia in Aβ-Driven Alzheimer’s Pathogenesis
Available online 2 May 2026
•Novel TREM2-ICG probe enables dual-modal photoacoustic/NIR-II imaging.•In vivo tracking of microglial dynamics near Aβ plaques with neural context at 30 fps.•Multiscale imaging overcomes depth/field-of-view...
Synthetic imagery, real decisions: Bridging consumer minds and review behavior with large language models
Available online 1 May 2026
•We validate the ability of large language models (LLMs) to simulate consumer mental imagery in the fragrance industry through a combination of online experiments and machine learning models.•Our findings...
Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals the Combined Effects of Simulated Microgravity and Space Radiation on Brain Structure and Function
Available online 30 April 2026
The extreme environmental factors in space, particularly microgravity and radiation, significantly impact the brain, yet the specific changes and potential risks from their combined effects remain unclear....
DPAFuse: A dual-space probabilistic adversarial image fusion framework with robust coding embedding
Available online 30 April 2026
•Robust coding embedding extracts reliable features under composite degraded conditions.•Dual-space adversarial fusion aligns distributions and preserves structures.•DPAFuse achieves superior recovery...
A review of systematic environmental risks across the life cycle of lithium resources: Identification, assessment, and sustainable governance strategies
Available online 28 April 2026
Driven by the global energy transition, lithium demand has surged dramatically, yet the full life cycle of this critical resource embodies a fundamental green paradox: decarbonization technologies rely...
Dual-Brain Fusion: Bidirectional Empowerment Between Human Brain and Brain-Inspired Systems
Available online 27 April 2026
•Propose a collaborative innovation framework integrating the human brain and brain-inspired systems, and identify the core components of this paradigm.•Analyze the key technological pathways for brain-intelligence...
Understanding the regulatory mechanisms of nanomaterials on carbon metabolism in plants
Available online 26 April 2026
Agricultural nanotechnology offers innovative strategies to enhance crop productivity by modulating fundamental physiological processes in plants. Despite growing evidence that nanomaterials (NMs) can...
Phanerozoic continental black shales and their coupling with astronomical cycles: A review and prospects
Available online 25 April 2026
Black shales preserve critical records of paleoclimate and carbon cycling, reflecting coupled interactions within the Earth system and serving as key archives for Earth system evolution and unconventional...
Higher microbial community stability promotes the link between biodiversity and multifunctionality under environmental changes
Available online 25 April 2026
Unraveling the community stability under a changing climate and its effects on the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions (BEF) is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology, which...
Climate-vegetation regimes dominate the divergent ecosystem responses to flash droughts in China
Available online 24 April 2026
•FD events were most frequent in humid and least in arid regions during 2001–2023.•Precipitation and temperature were identified as the dominant drivers of FD.•In China, humid-forests react to FD more...
Terrestrial carbon sequestration potential assessment: Concept, method, and perspective
Available online 23 April 2026
Accurately quantifying the terrestrial ecosystems’ carbon sequestration potential (CSP) is critical for climate mitigation, ecological security, and carbon neutrality. However, current assessments are...
Enhanced soil health and greenhouse gas mitigation potential are linked to microbial network restructuring under long-term organic farming
Available online 23 April 2026
•Organic farming enhanced soil health and reduced N2O and CH4 emissions.•Microbial network complexity was inversely linked with soil health under organic systems.•Keystone microbial taxa regulated GHG...
A perspective on hybrid intelligent computing for geospatial science
Available online 20 April 2026
Geospatial science refers to the interdisciplinary field involving acquisition, analysis, modelling, interpretation, visualization and service of geospatial data related to Earth’s surface and human...
