This Collection showcases cutting-edge research on bioactive natural compounds and their pharmacological applications. Covering cannabinoids, ginsenosides, and diverse plant-derived molecules, it examines mechanisms underlying inflammation, oxidative stress, and CNS function. Bringing together leading international scholars, the collection advances translational understanding and strengthens the scientific foundation for clinical use of natural medicines.

This Collection aims to integrate physiology, evidence, and bedside decision-making in critical care. Each paper should follow a structured approach, clearly organized into three core components: a clear and rigorous physiological rationale; a critical appraisal of the available evidence (including randomized trials and relevant observational studies); and a practical translation into clinical management at the bedside.

Studies that explicitly explore performance tradeoffs, durability, and feasibility under constrained operating conditions are particularly encouraged, with applications across energy, food, water, and circular material systems.

This Collection brings together research exploring how biological sex and gender influence cardiovascular disease risk, mechanisms, presentation, and outcomes, with the goal of advancing sex-specific understanding and improving equitable cardiovascular care.

This collection aims to provide multidisciplinary perspectives regarding the development of novel computing paradigms that consider challenges and opportunities throughout and across the computing stack.

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This Collection explores how integrated water management and territorial planning can support the development of sustainable and resilient cities facing growing pressures from climate change, land-use change, flood risk, water stress, and infrastructure vulnerability. It welcomes contribution on urban hydrology, stormwater management, urban drainage, flood mitigation, blue-green infrastructure, spatial planning, climate adaptation, and digital tools that support integrated urban decision-making.

Nanotechnology is rapidly advancing as a key field alongside artificial intelligence, with increasing applications in crop improvement and plant defense. This collection examines the benefits, mechanisms, and potential risks of nanomaterials in agriculture to address ongoing controversies and guide future research.

This Topical Collection highlights recent advances in nanotechnology-based approaches for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of infectious diseases. It focuses on innovative nanomaterials and nanobiotechnological strategies for diagnostics, vaccine development, antimicrobial therapies, biosensing technologies, and targeted drug delivery to address emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance.

This Collection explores nature-based pest management approaches that harness biodiversity and ecosystem services to sustainably regulate pest populations and reduce reliance on synthetic pesticides. It welcomes interdisciplinary research on biological control, agroecological practices, habitat management, and soil health interventions that enhance crop productivity, resilience, and environmental sustainability.

This Collection explores how indigenous ecological knowledge can be meaningfully integrated into climate and nature‑based education, challenging the dominance of Western scientific paradigms while fostering place‑based, intergenerational, and relational learning. It invites educational innovations and case studies from around the world that demonstrate how grounding learning in ancestral wisdom enhances environmental stewardship, resilience, biodiversity conservation, and epistemic justice.

This Collection provides an overview of modern industrial peptide manufacturing, covering chemical, biotechnological, and hybrid production strategies, as well as advances in process optimisation, scale-up, purification, characterisation, sustainability, and downstream applications.

This Topical Collection focuses on nanomaterials for the removal of emerging contaminants through combined adsorption, photocatalysis and advanced oxidation processes. It welcomes contributions on material design, hybrid systems, mechanistic understanding and applications in water and wastewater treatment.

This special collection invites contributions that advance the theory, algorithms, and best practices of ML-enabled electronic structure, with emphasis on approaches that improve accuracy, transferability, interpretability, and uncertainty quantification for materials applications.

This collection invites research on the processing, quality, food safety, microbiology, product development and health-related applications of non-bovine milk and milk products including cheese, yoghurt, fermented beverages infant nutrition products and functional ingredients. Research areas such as animal production, food safety, microbiology, nutrition, consumer acceptance and sustainability are not included.

This Collection focuses specifically on educational AI agents, including conversational agents, pedagogical agents, tutoring agents, feedback agents, and other agent-based systems designed to participate more actively in teaching and learning processes.

This Collection invites researchers to submit their work on the critical aspects of preparing nursing students for successful careers. We aim to highlight research on mentorship and advising programs, the integration of career readiness in curricula, leadership development, and innovative networking strategies. By focusing on career development, this Collection seeks to contribute to a more competent and satisfied nursing workforce, ultimately enhancing the quality of healthcare delivery.

BMC Neuroscience is calling for submissions to our Collection on the neural code of pain, exploring the transition from peripheral signals to central processing. We invite submissions that examine nociceptive pathways, pain modulation mechanisms, and the neurophysiology of pain, with the goal of advancing our understanding of pain and informing new therapeutic strategies.

This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection aims to provide a forum for rigorous scholarly reflection on the historical, philosophical, and theoretical dimensions of Adam Smith’s writings, as well as on their subsequent reception and reinterpretation across disciplines.

This Collection invites research on advances in genomic pathogen surveillance, focusing on its applications in public health, outbreak investigation, and pandemic preparedness. We welcome submissions that explore the role of genomic technologies, such as Whole Genome Sequencing, in tracking variants and informing infection prevention strategies, aiming to enhance our understanding and response to emerging infectious diseases.