The goal of this collection is to explore breakthroughs across AI‑enhanced cloud platforms, advanced data processing, next‑generation infrastructure, edge and fog integration, security & governance models, environmental sustainability, cross‑cloud interoperability, and emerging paradigms such as quantum, blockchain, and AI‑native cloud ecosystems. By uniting scalability, intelligence, and ethical responsibility, these innovations are shaping cloud technologies that benefit industry and society

BMC Microbiology invites submissions to its Collection Omics technologies and applications in horticultural crop research - Part II. This Collection highlights research on how omics technologies advance horticultural crop biology, supporting improved breeding, trait discovery, and sustainable production. We welcome studies applying genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, phenomics, ionomics, and multi‑omics approaches to understand, enhance, and innovate across horticultural crops.

With this collection, we aim to enhance our understanding of foodborne pathogens and enhance food safety.

This Collection explores how artificial intelligence is increasingly shaping the way individuals think, interact, and live within rapidly changing social environments.

BMC Global and Public Health is calling for submissions to our Collection on healthy life expectancy, exploring its determinants and implications for public health. We aim to highlight research that addresses the interplay of factors influencing healthy aging, the evaluation of health outcomes through Disability-Adjusted Life Years and Quality-Adjusted Life Years, and the development of policies to promote healthy longevity.

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research that deepens mechanistic understanding of plant-microbe interactions and explores their applications in sustainable environmental and agricultural systems.

The NANO KOREA 2026 Conference is a premier international event in nanoscience and nanotechnology, taking place from July 8–10, 2026 at KINTEX, Korea. Centered on the theme “Innovation for the Future: As Nano Meets AI,” the conference will showcase cutting-edge research, emerging trends, and interdisciplinary advancements across fields such as nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, energy, nanomedicine, and AI-driven nanotechnology. It also features a special issue highlighting key developments and fut

This collection seeks to show the current status of studies on environmental effects for gravitational wave sources and to give prospects of what might be possible with future gravitational wave detectors.

This Collection focuses on advanced functional materials and smart manufacturing technologies enabling robotics, adaptive systems, and intelligent engineering applications. It emphasizes material innovation, AI-assisted design, and scalable fabrication strategies for high performance industrial deployment.

This Collection invites work on the structural biology of the interactions, regulation, and disease-associated disruptions of biomolecular condensates.

We aim to bring together high quality and novel research spanning applied microbial physiology, metabolic engineering, bioenergy, environmental biotechnology, and emerging tools that accelerate innovation and industrial solutions.

This special issue seeks to showcase innovative scholarship that advances understanding of how evolution is taught, learned, and assessed across diverse educational settings, audiences, and contexts. contributions that examine curriculum, instructional approaches, conceptual change, learning progressions, assessment development and validation, teacher preparation, public understanding, and issues of equity, inclusion, and access in evolution education are welcomed.

This Collection presents original research into the mechanisms, diagnosis and management of pericardial disease.

This Collection welcomes submissions on vaccine development, delivery technologies, efficacy studies, and practical applications in aquaculture and fish farming, with a focus on solutions that support health management and sustainability across diverse species and production systems.

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies is welcoming submissions for its Collection on Complementary medicine for diabetes. This collection examines the integration of various complementary therapies with conventional treatment strategies to support blood sugar control and diabetes management. Topics of interest include herbal remedies, traditional dietary guidelines, and lifestyle modifications, as well as mechanisms of action and how these therapies contribute to overall patient well-being.

By integrating physical principles with computational modeling, quantitative approaches have transformed our understanding of how multiscale interactions—from molecular dynamics to tissue mechanics—drive both regulated development and the stochastic decline of aging. This collection showcases how experimental measurements, mathematical simulations, and AI-driven insights elucidate biological organization and the fundamental mechanisms governing function, regulation, and the limits of lifespan.

This Special Issue highlights research enabling carbon‑neutral energy systems by integrating electricity, heat, fuels, storage, and demand-side resources. It addresses renewable integration, sector coupling, hydrogen, digital optimization, flexibility, resilience, and governance. The Collection advances system-level insights, interdisciplinary approaches, scalable solutions, and science-based guidance for SDG 7 and SDG 13.

This Collection outlines the importance of addressing age-related mobility and balance decline through interdisciplinary research and emerging digital health technologies to improve assessment, monitoring, and prevention of falls in older adults.

This Collection aims to bring together cutting-edge research that explores the synergy between nanophotonics and energy generation, utilization, and storage.

The "Sustainable Materials for Emerging Micro and Nano Systems" Collection seeks to gather innovative research focused on the development and application of sustainable materials in micro and nano technologies. By exploring biodegradable materials, nanocomposites, and eco-friendly manufacturing processes, this Collection aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration that addresses environmental challenges while advancing the capabilities of micro and nano systems.