Vol.40 No.1 2026
About the Cover: (Image: EP Science Center, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS/Sci Visual) Einstein Probe (EP), an astronomical satellite built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in cooperation with its European partners, detected a weird source in X-rays. Unlike any previously documented transient, it was unusually bright, and evolved very fast. Its furious flares, first emerged in X-rays, shortly hardened and peaked at tens of MeV in the gamma-ray band, sustaining for hours. The peak flares decayed soon, and a soft X-ray afterglow rose to dominate the spectrum. What drastic cosmic event could have produced such a bright, fast evolving radiation? Find it out in page 28.
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- Contents
- 2 IN THIS ISSUE
- 5 IN BRIEF
- 9 ANNUAL SPECIAL - Top 10 News of S&T Advances for 2025: Chinese Academicians’ Pick
- 23 ANNUAL SPECIAL - “Artificial Sun” Tops the ’25 List of Leading News for S&T Advances of China Elected by Academicians
- 26 ANNUAL SPECIAL - EAST Overcomes Empirical Limit on Plasma Density
- 28 HIGHLIGHT - Likely First Capture of an Intermediate-mass Black Hole Devouring a White Dwarf
- 33 ARTICLE - Reframing the Strategic Framework for a Climate Just Transition: A Global South Perspective
- 41 IN DEPTH - LHAASO Unveils Likely Origin of UHE Cosmic Rays, and Formation of the “Knee”
- 48 IN DEPTH - Designing Microbes to Decompose Industrial Wastes
- 52 IN DEPTH - Mapping Life: From the Whispers of a Cell to the Symphony of an Organ
- 56 SCIENCE WATCH - Researchers Realize Room-temperature Two-dimensional Multiferroic Metal
- 58 SCIENCE WATCH - Overcoming the VUV Bottleneck: A New High-Performance Nonlinear Optical Crystal
- 60 SCIENCE WATCH - Engineered iTreg-Mediated Immune Tolerance in Zebrafish Overcomes Allograft Rejection for Rapid Gamete Production
- 62 SCIENCE WATCH - Oldest Known Bony Fish Fossils Uncover Early Vertebrate Evolution