While water oxidation is the key reaction in natural and artificial photosynthesis, it is kinetically and thermodynamically sluggish, so constructing a molecular system in aqueous media remains challenging. Here, the authors report highly efficient water oxidation in aqueous media via electrochemical polymerisation of a pentanuclear iron complex.

He et al. report spin-LEDs based on chiral perovskite quantum dots which act as localized spin-selective units and radiative recombination centers simultaneously. Ultrasonic treatment assisted ligand exchange enables spin-LEDs with peak efficiency of 16.8% and dissymmetry factor of 0.285.

Crystal polymorphism plays an important role in pharmaceuticals, agrisciences and other industries. Here the authors present an efficient and accurate crystal structure prediction method with large scale validation and blind test.

Pressure induced charge amorphisation realised in the structurally crystalline material BiNiO₃ at low temperature, provides fundamental approaches to the study of amorphisation with charge states rather than atoms or molecules.

The influence of Li occupancy on electro-chemomechanical stability in Co-free Ni-rich layered oxides for Li-ion batteries has been overlooked. Here, authors investigate different Li structural units in the oxide lattice and show that tuning the Li occupancy improves battery cycling stability.

A new study reveals that the ocean biological pump plays a vital role in maintaining low atmospheric CO2 levels and facilitating efficient future anthropogenic carbon sinks. Without it, climate change would occur at an amplified and accelerated rate.

The authors discover oldhamite (CaS) in Chang’E-6 lunar soils. Through thermodynamic calculations, the authors suggest a potentially large-scale, high-energy impact event with an S-rich asteroid or involving lunar S-rich mantle-core excavation to be responsible for the formation of oldhamite.

Using remote sensing, this study establishes the nitrogen budget for 5,768 lakes. Results show that reducing watershed nitrogen input improves water quality nonlinearly, emphasizing targeted watershed management to meet the SDG of global clean water.

This paper shows that warming during the hot season over tropical lands will be amplified under global warming. This “hot-season-gets-hotter” phenomenon is mainly due to the rainfall delay and is most evident in the Amazon region.

This study reveals the different response of sediment-rich and sediment-starved tidal flats to sediment supply changes, providing new insights for coastal management.

SedaDNA can facilitate reconstruction of past species distributions. Here, the authors generate metagenomes from 156 stratigraphically-sampled sediments and use them to reconstruct the history of 10 Adélie penguin colonies, including penguin diet and diversity, spanning 6000 years.

MntR is a protein that can repress the expression of Mn²⁺ uptake transporters and activate the expression of efflux proteins. Here, the authors use cryo-EM and other biochemical approaches to establish how MntR cooperatively activates transcription.

Limited high quality multi-omics resources are available for plants with complex genomes. Here, authors generate transcriptome, proteome, phosphoproteome, and acetylproteome data sets across wheat developmental stages and reveal de-acetylation of TaP5CS1 by TaHDA9 regulates Fusarium crown rot resistance.

Viromes, or viral communities, may evolve host-specificity. Here, the authors use 100 plant and insect viral sequences to find that plant-pollinator interactions and phenology shape the plant virus communities collected by bees, but insect viruses rarely replicate in multiple bee species.

This study identifies molecular pathogenesis in the kidney of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). The authors reveal downregulated metabolism genes in urinary extracellular vesicles (EVs) and kidney tissue, with elevated urine metabolites, suggesting urinary EVs as indicators of renal and metabolic disturbance.

Blood phosphorylated (p)-tau 181 and p-tau 217 have been proposed as accurate biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. Here, the authors find p-tau 181 and 217 are elevated in serum and muscle of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

In ER + /HER2- breast cancer, patients with PAM50 HER2-enriched tumors have an elevated relapse risk. The subtype is less estrogen dependent, while being highly proliferative, immune infiltrated and FGFR4-expressing, indicating novel therapy targets.

Production stability depends on both yield and harvested area. Swapping rice for climate resilient cereals such as millets, maize, and sorghum in India could reduce climate-induced losses by 11% and increase farmer profits by 11%, achievable through targeted economic incentives.

The food and water crisis demands innovative agricultural solutions. Here, the authors propose a next-generation greenhouse water-saving strategy by integrating advanced technologies, including atmospheric water harvesting, superabsorbent polymers, radiative cooling, and solar-driven desalination.

Big-data empowered traffic signal control in China can reduce vehicle trip times, creating potential reduction of 31.73 million tonnes (Mt) of CO2 emissions annually and US$31.8 billion benefits per year.

The authors estimate, by early 2021, 17.4% of the housing stock built in urban China in 2001–2018 remained unused. Cutting down the volume of unused dwelling units can contribute substantially to China’s further decarbonization.

Complex networks are relevant to wide range of areas, from biology to social sciences and economics, however the aspect that networks can move through space has not been elaborated. The authors propose a concept of traveling networks that can dynamically restructure themselves in space and perform search tasks.