Magnetic field can speed up ultrafast laser-driven demagnetization in a novel 2D magnet Fe₃GeTe₂, revealing a universal control mechanism for future high frequency tech.

Wider voltage windows accelerate voltage decay at Mn³⁺/Mn²⁺ plateau in LMFP cathodes. Huazhong University researchers attribute this to irreversible lattice distortion and deteriorated lithium-ion diffusion, providing a roadmap for stable high-energy batteries.

Chip-scale integration of optical frequency combs provides miniaturized instrumentation that bridges optical and microwave signals. Recently, Chinese scientists have demonstrated soliton microcombs in high-Q microresonators on X-cut thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), a platform that enables monolithic integration of modulators and frequency doublers—essential for realizing complete comb functionality on photonic chips. This advance overcomes a key limitation of TFLN photonics and supports fully integrated, fast-tunable, self-referenced microcombs for chip-scale applications in timekeeping, ranging, and spectroscopy.

A joint research team from Japan has observed "heavy fermions," electrons with dramatically enhanced mass, exhibiting quantum entanglement governed by the Planckian time – the fundamental unit of time in quantum mechanics. This discovery opens up exciting possibilities for harnessing this phenomenon in solid-state materials to develop a new type of quantum computer.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Bigelow Laboratory scientists, combined methods to help explain enigmatic satellite observations and begin to unravel the complex biological communities and geochemical processes at play in this remote part of the ocean.

The evolutionary success of our species may have hinged on minute changes to our brain biochemistry after we diverged from the lineage leading to Neanderthals and Denisovans about half a million years ago 

Two of these tiny changes that set modern humans apart from Neanderthals and Denisovans affect the stability and genetic expression of the enzyme adenylosuccinate lyase, or ADSL. This enzyme is involved in the biosynthesis of purine, one of the fundamental building blocks of DNA, RNA, and other important biomolecules. In a study to be published in PNAS, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan and the Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany have discovered that these changes may play an important role in our behavior, contributing new pieces to the great puzzle of who we humans are and where we come from. “Through our study, we have gotten clues into the functional consequences of some of the molecular changes that set modern humans apart from our ancestors,” says first author Dr. Xiang-Chun Ju of the Human Evolutionary Genomics Unit at OIST.