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5-Aug-2025

Heavy fermions entangled: Quantum computing's new frontier?

The University of Osaka
Peer-Reviewed Publication

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.

Journal: npj Quantum Materials
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

4-Aug-2025

First real-time observation of two-dimensional melting process

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Peer-Reviewed Publication

What occurs during the melting process in two-dimensional systems at the microscopic level? Researchers have now explored this phenomenon in thin magnetic layers.

Journal: Nature Nanotechnology
Funder: European Research Council

4-Aug-2025

National Science Foundation renews Brown’s national mathematics institute with $16.5 million

Brown University
Grant and Award Announcement

The grant will fund the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics through 2030, offering opportunities to explore mathematical concepts that underpin everything from AI to industrial design.

Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation

4-Aug-2025

New method to steer electricity in atom-thin metals may revolutionize devices

University of Minnesota
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a major step toward next-generation electronics, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have discovered a way to manipulate the direction of charge flow in ultrathin metallic films at room temperature using light.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, DOE/US Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

4-Aug-2025

Promising signals in quantum computing

Singapore University of Technology and Design
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team led by SUTD proposes a quantum-enhanced framework for processing complex topological signals that could one day outperform classical methods in recommendation systems, network science, and more.

Journal: Physical Review Applied

31-Jul-2025

Big data begins to crack the cold case of endometriosis

University of California - San Francisco
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at UCSF have found that endometriosis — a painful chronic disease affecting 10% of women that often goes undiagnosed — often occurs alongside conditions like cancer, Crohn's disease, and migraine.

The research could improve how endometriosis is diagnosed and, ultimately, how it is treated; and it paints the sharpest portrait yet of a condition that is as mysterious as it is prevalent.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine
Funder: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

31-Jul-2025

New algorithms enable efficient machine learning with symmetric data

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

MIT researchers designed a computationally efficient algorithm for machine learning with symmetric data that also requires fewer data for training than conventional approaches. Their work could inform the design of faster, more accurate machine-learning models for tasks like discovering new drugs or identifying astronomical phenomena.

Funder: National Research Foundation of Singapore, DSO National Laboratories - Singapore, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Office of Naval Research, Alexander von Humboldt Professorship