The material UTe₂ exhibits multiple forms of zero electrical resistance—a phenomenon known as superconductivity—and displays several puzzling properties. After UTe₂ loses its superconductivity at a certain magnetic field, it becomes superconducting again under much higher fields. Using a new high-field measurement technique, researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have explained this unusual superconducting behavior in a paper in Nature Communications. Their method is now being adopted at high‑field laboratories worldwide.

The first atlas of the female reproductive system shows menopause as a turning point that reorganizes organs and tissues, revealing that they do not all age at the same rate.

The study used artificial intelligence and the supercomputing power of MareNostrum 5 to analyze more than 1,000 tissue images and the expression of thousands of genes in 659 samples from 304 women.

The results open the door to detecting blood biomarkers that would allow non-invasive monitoring of reproductive aging and its associated risks.

Recently, a research team led by Professor WANG Hui from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China, the Institute of Health and Medical Technology of HFIPS of CAS, and the University of Macau, successfully developed a coordination-unsaturated copper single-atom nanozyme.

Recently, a pharmaceutical research team led by Prof. LIU Qingsong at the Institute of Health and Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Tongji University, identified a natural compound, Timosaponin AIII (TAIII), that selectively eliminates CAR-T regulatory T cells.

A collaborative research team led by the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Anhui University, Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, and Wuhan University of Technology, has developed an atomic-column-resolved electron magnetic circular dichroism (EMCD) method capable of imaging antiferromagnetic order at the atomic scale.

In cases involving serious criminal offenses, the police are permitted to conduct acoustic surveillance of telephones, private premises, or vehicles to record conversations of suspected offenders or to analyze chat communications. When criminal groups communicate in languages other than German, language mediators or so-called intercept interpreters-translators (IITs) are tasked with rendering the content into German. Their role extends beyond mere linguistic transfer to include the communication of additional information relevant to the investigation. The results of their work also serve as evidence in court proceedings. To ensure effective crime prevention and prosecution, the police, the prosecuting attorneys, and courts depend on precise intercept interpreting and translation. This is the very topic of the new research project on "Qualified language mediation for efficient forensic communication surveillance", QSEK for short, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space with around EUR 880,000 through its Validation of the Technological and Social Innovation Potential of Scientific Research (VIP+) program.