16-Jan-2026 Honeycomb lattice sweetens quantum materials development DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are pioneering the design and synthesis of quantum materials, which are central to discovery science involving synergies with quantum computation. These innovative materials, including magnetic compounds with honeycomb-patterned lattices, have the potential to host states of matter with exotic behavior. Journal Inorganic Chemistry Funder US Department of Energy Office of Science, Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory
16-Jan-2026 Landing scheduling for carrier aircraft fleet considering bolting probability and aerial refueling KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This paper addresses carrier aircraft landing scheduling considering bolting and aerial refueling. It defines fuel and wake interval constraints, formulates a combinatorial optimization model, and designs an improved firefly algorithm. A dynamic replanning mechanism handles special situations, and simulations validate the model’s effectiveness in enhancing recovery safety and efficiency. Journal Defence Technology Funder National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science and Technology Program of Liaoning Province
15-Jan-2026 New AI model shows how to evacuate for fires one safe step at a time National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) During a fire, the safest exit is generally the closest one. But as a fire spreads, a nearby exit can become unsafe. A NIST-led team has created a new AI model that can identify safe evacuation routes in a single-story floor plan during a fire, with a multilevel version in the works. Journal Journal of Building Engineering
14-Jan-2026 An innovative new tool draws on emojis to improve consumer sentiment analysis American Marketing Association A new study introduces "NADE" (Natural Affect DEtection), which leverages the power of emojis to give companies unprecedented insight into consumer emotions. Journal Journal of Marketing
14-Jan-2026 FedCare: towards interactive diagnosis of federated learning systems Higher Education Press FedCare delivers the first visual pipeline that pinpoints, classifies and mitigates FL failures in real time, cutting convergence rounds and boosting accuracy across tested attacks without sacrificing privacy. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 DVRE: dominator-based variables reduction of encoding for model-based diagnosis Higher Education Press DVRE cuts MaxSAT encoding size offline and clauses online, delivering the fastest complete MBD on ISCAS-85 for both single- and multi-observation cases without extra data. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 Boosting recommendation performance by user intention aware visual feature pre-training Higher Education Press Research team debuts the first visual pre-training paradigm tailored for CTR prediction, lifting Taobao GMV by 0.88% (p < 0.01) via user-intent contrastive learning that mines interest-centric image signals. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 Multi-constraint reinforcement learning in complex robot environments Higher Education Press FPMCO decomposes multi-constraint RL into KL-projection sub-problems, achieving higher reward with lower computing than second-order rivals on the new SCIG robotics benchmark. Journal Frontiers of Computer Science
14-Jan-2026 Plasmonic Au nanobipyramid assembly covalent organic framework for boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution through strong local electric field Higher Education Press Researchers have developed a hybrid material by integrating bipyramid-shaped gold nanocrystals with sharp edge with a covalent organic framework. This novel structure harnesses concentrated light energy at the gold tips, significantly enhancing the efficiency of photocatalytic hydrogen evolution—a clean method to produce fuel from water and sunlight. Journal Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica
