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ISSN: 2667-3258
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Collagen mineralization pathway guided by multiscale structure of intermuscular bone in crucian carp

Bones have garnered significant attention for their lightweight and high-toughness properties. The building block of bone is mineralized collagen fibrils, which are hierarchically organized across multiple...

Reconfigurable Acoustic Coding Metasurface for Bidirectional Wavefront Manipulation across the Water-Air Interface

highlights•A reconfigurable coding metasurface enables efficient bidirectional wavefront control across the water-air interface.•Sidewall-induced flexural resonance in discrete units simultaneously...

Copper-Doped CeZn Catalysts for Efficient CO2-Assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane: Mechanistic Insights and Performance Optimization

The use of CO2 as a mild oxidant for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (CO2-ODHP) is crucial for achieving net-zero carbon emissions and mitigating greenhouse gases that contribute to global...

Virtual energy shortage risk to trade network in China

•Local energy shortage risk cascades through trade, creating virtual risk patterns.•Virtual energy shortage risk propagation in China is measured based on the MRIO.•Virtual energy shortage risk constitute...

Building a Global Early-Warning System for Environmental Risks with Remote Sensing

Amid intensifying environmental risks, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, global ecosystems are under unprecedented pressure. Environmental monitoring forms the cornerstone...

Understand Systemic Risk from Mangrove Ecosystem through Network Analysis

Mangrove deforestation amplifies systemic risks by worsening extreme weather events, impeding socio-economic development, and exposing governance vulnerabilities. Yet, the extent to which mangrove dynamics—both...

Efficient Access Authentication for Quantum Communication Network with Digital Certificates

Disentangling complex language contact and admixture in the broad Gansu-Qinghai region

Language evolution in the Gansu-Qinghai (GQ) region provides a key perspective for understanding cultural development along the eastern Silk Road. Previous genetic and archaeological studies have revealed...

3D reconstruction of a model phytophagous mite at nano-resolution reveals a peculiar ingestion and digestion system and structural adaptation for a tiny animal

The fine structure of the globally distributed phytophagous mite, Tetranychus urticae, has been elucidated using serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (SBF-SEM) combined with 3D reconstruction....

Targeting C3aR/STAT3 signaling attenuates neuroinflammation and reverses neurological impairment in Neuromyelitis optica

Abundant evidence indicates that the interaction between astrocytes and microglia through the C3-C3a receptor (C3aR) pathway is a crucial contributor to the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative and autoimmune...

Efficient quantum secret sharing protocol without the basis matching

TRUST: A toolkit for TEE-assisted secure outsourced computation over integers

Secure outsourced computation (SOC) provides secure computing services by taking advantage of the computation power of cloud computing and the technology of privacy computing (e.g., homomorphic encryption)....

From curve to surface: Unraveling nonlinear dynamics in the resource–environment–economy nexus

•This study extends the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) by integrating resource dynamics into a three-dimensional Resource–Environmental Kuznets Surface (REKS) model.•The REKS model reveals differentiated...

Solution landscape of reaction-diffusion systems reveals a nonlinear mechanism and spatial robustness of pattern formation

•We propose a generic and efficient numerical algorithm to systematically construct the complete solution landscape of reaction-diffusion systems.•We demonstrate that Turing instability is not the prerequisite...

Pure oxygen terminated MXenes prepared by NaOH/NaI eutectic molten salt

MXenes, a promising class of two-dimensional materials derived from transition metal carbides and nitrides, are attracting considerable attention for their remarkable properties and potential uses in...

Challenges and fundamental theoretical problems of super-converged generative information network

Super-converged generative information network (SoGIN) envisions the integration of human-physical and digital networks, with development requirements centered on space-air-ground integration, computing-storage-sensing-intelligence...

Application of stellate ganglion modulation in mental disorders and the future prospects of physical therapies

The treatment of mental disorders faces significant challenges due to their complex etiology and the limitations of existing therapies. Neuromodulation has emerged as a promising approach for managing...

How a healthy lifestyle mediates socioeconomic inequities in healthy ageing and life expectancies: A 20-year cohort of older adults

Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with various adverse health outcomes, but its association with healthy ageing is less known, and whether adherence to a healthy lifestyle at late-life...

Biointerface interaction regulation based on organic semiconducting polymers

In complex biological systems, physical factors such as light and thermal energy affect normal physiological processes. When exposed to light stimulation, organic semiconducting polymers (OSPs) alter...

Polarization control enabled by on-chip three-dimensional rotator

Precise polarization control is fundamental for applications such as optical communication and quantum information processing. Femtosecond-laser written photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer the...

Hardware-enhanced Data Security for Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become deeply embedded in daily life, enabling pervasive collection of user and environmental data. However, securing sensor-edge-cloud IoT architectures remains a critical...

One-DoF robotic design of overconstrained limbs with energy-efficient, self-collision-free motion

•Proposed a generalized gradient-based design approach for linkage-based robotic limbs with self-collision-free motions.•Developed a computational design framework by optimizing the similarity and energy-related...

Physical biomedical science

AI for biology: Catalyzing interdisciplinary innovation to unravel life’s complexity and address biomedical challenges

Regret Bound for Multi-Armed Bandits with Discounting: A Robust Stochastic Control Approach

We investigate the exact regret bound for stochastic multi-armed bandit problems with discounting, by formulating the regret bound as the value of a robust stochastic control problem. We first show...

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