A review in Engineering explores organ preservation, which is a critical area due to the global organ shortage. Current methods like static cold storage and machine perfusion have limitations. Cryopreservation shows promise, but challenges remain. The research details the history, techniques, and prospects for different organs, aiming to improve preservation and address the shortage.

The effect of high magnetic field on the directional solidification structure of Al-18 at.%Ni peritectic alloy was studied. In the absence of magnetic field, the alloy forms a dendritic structure with preferred orientation, and a transverse plate-like structure with block eutectic is formed under a 6 T magnetic field. At 0 T and 5 μm/s, the Al₃Ni phase was preferentially oriented along the <010> direction, while the sample prepared at 100 μm/s exhibited no preferred orientation. Under 6 T magnetic field, 5 μm/s pulling makes the solidification mode change from peritectic reaction to hypereutectic reaction, and the Al₃Ni phase presents orientation. When the pumping speed increases to 20-100 μm/s, the peritectic reaction is still dominant. The primary Al₃Ni₂ phase is oriented along the direction, and the peritectic phase is attached to it to form a preferred orientation. The magnetic field regulates crystal orientation and solute transport through the coupling of magnetic torque, thermo-electro-magnetic force and magnetic field force, and its influence mechanism shows a significant dependence on pulling speed.

This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic activity in the Makran Subduction Zone. Using 3-D thermal modeling, the research examines the thermal structure of the subducting slab, the resulting metamorphic processes, and their relationship to earthquake generation. The findings provide crucial insights into the dynamics of subduction zones, with significant implications for understanding seismic hazards in the region.

A study elucidating the seismogenic structures of the Ms 6.2 Jishishan earthquake that struck China on December 18, 2023, has recently been published in Earth and Planetary Physics. The research employed relocation, focal mechanism solutions, and rupture process inversion to characterize the causative faults and rupture dynamics of this seismic event.

Existing methods often struggle to identify relatively critical road segments in local areas with lower traffic flow in large-scale road networks. Researchers from Fuzhou University proposed a new two-stage feature learning method based on the dynamic and static embeddings of road segments. This method can effectively identify critical road segments in large-scale networks and relatively critical segments in local areas, outperforming traditional methods in various evaluation metrics. Their findings were recently published in Journal of Geo-information Science.