This cross‑journal special Collection brings together research highlighting how viral diversity, ecology, function, and evolution are responding to our rapidly changing planet, maybe even impacting the change themselves and potentially acting as solutions to ameliorate some changes.

BMC Bioinformatics is welcoming submissions to our Collection on Simulated and synthetic data in bioinformatics: statistical methods, models, and applications.

This Scientific Reports Collection showcases research on emerging single‑photon detectors and their exploitation in the next generation of imaging methodologies.

This Collection aims to capture advances in the discovery, theory, quantification and experimental control of chiral quantum materials.

This Collection welcomes work defining the molecular, cellular, and environmental factors that govern immune cell plasticity across health and disease.

This Collection invites research on emerging/high risk pandemic viruses including drivers of emergence, surveillance, pathogenesis, diagnostics, therapeutics and preparedness.

Pathways to sustainably achieving zero hunger by 2050

This Collection highlights original research that investigate surface designs, dynamic wetting mechanisms, multiphase interfacial transport, and coupling with thermal or electrohydrodynamic effects.

The overarching goal of this Collection is to offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and critical perspective on how AI is shaping the future of Physical Education, providing a foundation for future research, curriculum redesign, and the promotion of innovative, inclusive, and evidence-based educational practices.

This Special Issue focuses on advances in pan-cancer research using multi-omics approaches to uncover shared and tumor-specific molecular mechanisms, biomarkers, and regulatory networks across cancers. It highlights innovative computational methods, integrative analyses, and translational applications that improve diagnosis, prognosis, and targeted therapies. Emphasis is placed on addressing challenges in data integration, biological validation, and clinical implementation in precision oncology.

This collection explores interdisciplinary, collaborative research and innovative strategies to address pressing climate and carbon management challenges amid global disruptions, focusing on actionable pathways for net-zero transition across diverse sectors, policy, communities, industries and public engagement.

This Collection explores evidence-based and accessible interventions in physical activity, exercise, and sport aimed at assessing and improving physical fitness, health, and participation among children with disabilities across diverse settings.

This collection focuses on sustainable strategies for the production, modification, characterization, and application of cellulose nanocrystals derived from renewable biomass within the framework of green chemistry. It welcomes contributions addressing environmentally friendly extraction and functionalization methods, energy-efficient and low-waste processes, and the development of sustainable CNC-based materials and technologies.

This Collection welcomes interdisciplinary contributions on green chemistry strategies for the sustainable extraction, design, and valorization of bioproducts and biomaterials derived from renewable feedstocks, with a focus on circular resource use and the transformation of waste streams into high-value materials and functional products.

This Collection focuses on the design and functionalization of nanostructured materials for sustainable sensing applications. It highlights the relationship between material properties and sensing performance, particularly for environmental monitoring and low-energy detection systems.

AI-driven advanced building materials design integrates machine learning, multi-scale simulation, and high-throughput experimentation to accelerate the discovery, optimization, and intelligent manufacturing of sustainable, high-performance construction materials. This collection focuses on data-driven material design, performance prediction, durability enhancement, low-carbon cementitious systems, and smart infrastructure applications, aiming to promote the next generation of intelligent and sus

This collection is intended to bring together concise review articles addressing various aspects of non-Hermitian quantum systems, encompassing recent theoretical advances, experimental developments, and potential technological applications.

This Collection focuses on microbial biocontrol strategies for plant disease management, with emphasis on bacteria, fungi, and other beneficial microorganisms that support sustainable crop protection. It highlights mechanisms of pathogens suppression and plant–microbe interactions alongside studies that validate field applications for environmentally safe and effective agricultural disease management.

This Collection aims to move beyond fragmented perspectives to develop models that more accurately reflect and address the complexity of dementia.

This Collection explores conservation-driven ecological transformations: the ecological, behavioural, and social changes emerging from the recovery and expansion of large mammals in the Anthropocene. As predators and large herbivores recolonize former habitats and establish populations in novel environments, they reshape trophic interactions, species assemblages, ecosystem processes, and human–wildlife relationships. Such transformations often create ecological conditions with no histor