A critical study sheds light on the growing global burden of esophageal cancer, outlining its significant impact and the imperative to identify the driving factors behind its increasing prevalence. 

A new study has unveiled a striking connection between weight gain after the age of 35 and an increased risk of breast cancer, highlighting the urgent need for proactive weight monitoring in women's health as they age.

Breast cancer's resistance to treatment is a major hurdle in improving patient outcomes. 

A new study reveals that the seasonal march of the mid-Pliocene East Asian summer monsoon was about 10 days earlier than today, providing implications for the future change from a paleoclimate perspective.

Aiming at the small-signal synchronization instability of grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) converter system, this paper proposes a synchronization perspective frequency-domain modeling and analysis method, able to intuitively reveal mechanism and accurately judge multi-machine stability. Specifically, a node admittance matrix considering GFL, GFM converters and transmission network is established. Then, the frequency domain modal analysis (FMA) method is adopted to evaluate system instability characteristics. On this ground, synchronization forward and feedback paths are partitioned at the oscillation source, so as to formulate a synchronization perspective stability model incorporating dynamics of each converter and transmission network. Finally, the proposed method has been validated using a typical two-machine GFL-GFM system. With such method, the stability judgment failure caused by the feedback path aggregation is addressed, and the interaction mechanism between GFL and GFM synchronization dynamics is revealed as well as their parameter influences.

Based on the North China Plain, a typical winter wheat-summer maize rotation system was selected by postdoctor Sun Xinzhan from Zhang Junling's research group and associate professor Zhang Jiangzhou from Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. The soil health index and microbial network of 0–15 and 15–30 cm wheat fields with different yields were introduced, and the health status of the top soil and deep soil were evaluated. The relationship between microbials and soil health was revealed, and suggestions were put forward to enhance soil health and improve wheat yield. Better measures were taken to manage farmland soil and achieve green and sustainable development of agriculture while increasing production.

A new study has revealed that tomatoes harvested at an extremely early stage can still undergo maturation and ripening postharvest, offering a new avenue to enhance agricultural practices.

To efficiently compute where waves of light, sound, or earthquakes will go when scattered by irregular obstacles is useful in various fields but difficult and expensive to do, even using recent machine learning techniques. To improve the scalability and practicality of such computations, Laurynas Valantinas and Tom Vettenburg, researchers at the University of Dundee in the UK, mapped the wave equations onto the structure of a recurrent neural network. Its minimal memory requirements allowed them to scale up wave scattering calculations by two orders of magnitude or more. The “scattering network” design was published Aug. 5 in Intelligent Computing, a Science Partner Journal, in an article titled “Scaling Up Wave Calculations with a Scattering Network.”

A pivotal study has unveiled the genetic mechanisms that control lateral branching in tomatoes, a critical factor for improving crop productivity.

Researchers have uncovered a pivotal genetic mechanism that enables tomatoes to enhance phosphate uptake by partnering with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.