Shimadzu Corporation, a global leader in the precision instrumentation industry, and Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD Hub), a national platform hosted by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are pleased to announce a strategic collaboration to establish the Shimadzu – DxD Hub Diagnomics Centre (SDDC) at Biopolis, Singapore. Officially launched today, the SDDC will drive innovation and accelerate the development of diagnostic products by integrating Shimadzu’s technological expertise with DxD Hub’s productisation platforms.

The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) portal is now available on the Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) platform, offering open access to data about all types of life on Earth. The BDJ portal provides access to nearly 300,000 biodiversity records from around the world, along with more than 800 datasets and over 1,000 citations. Users can search for data by taxonomy, location, IUCN Red List category, and other criteria. The portal also provides statistics and clustering features to help users explore the data more efficiently.

Ventilation is an important process within the global ocean, where waters sink to deeper layers, are transported by deep currents, and eventually upwelled back to the surface. This process affects the distribution of oxygen and carbon in the global ocean by transporting these elements from the surface to deeper regions of the ocean. Scientists are still trying to understand the exact dynamics and circulation pathways that determine how dense, cold water from deep in the Gulf of Mexico gets circulated within the Gulf. Current theories suggest that deep water is transformed into intermediate water through small scale mixing which drives upwelling before flowing out of the Gulf through the Yucatán Channel.

Semantic communication, an emerging technology, has garnered considerable attention for its potential to enhance transmission efficiency. This approach emphasizes the precise transmission of semantic information rather than individual symbols or bits, facilitating purposeful information exchange for efficient transmission. Researchers have proposed a novel semantic communication transmission system using multimode fiber, achieving high spectral efficiency and demonstrating its effectiveness in sentiment analysis applications.

Do Kyung Hwang (Post-Silicon Semiconductor Institute, KIST; KU-KIST Graduate School, KIST School) and Dr. Min-Chul Park (Post-Silicon Semiconductor Institute, KIST; Korea University, and Yonsei University), along with their joint research team at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Sang-Rok Oh), have successfully developed an innovative electrode material called Conductive-Bridge Interlayer Contact (CBIC), enabling the realization of a 2D semiconductor-based image sensor with high optical signal efficiency.

AutoCodeRover, an autonomous AI agent platform for software development which is a spin-off technology of the National University of Singapore (NUS), has been acquired by Sonar, a global leader in code quality and code security solutions. This innovative technology was developed by Professor Abhik Roychoudhury and his team from NUS School of Computing (NUS Computing). The acquisition highlights the real-world impact of NUS’ research with the innovative platform boosting Sonar’s AI-agent-based code development, driving innovation in software engineering and agentic AI. This exciting partnership will also create new research and development (R&D) jobs in Singapore.

Zuchongzhi-3, a superconducting quantum computing prototype with 105 qubits and 182 couplers, has made significant advancements in random quantum circuit sampling. This prototype was successfully developed by a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), including Pan Jianwei, Zhu Xiaobo, and Peng Chengzhi, in collaboration with Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Henan Key Laboratory of Quantum Information and Cryptography, China National Institute of Metrology, Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology, School of Microelectronics at Xidian University, and the Institute of Theoretical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This prototype operates at a speed that is 10¹⁵ times faster than the fastest supercomputer currently available and one million times faster than the latest results published by Google. This achievement marks a milestone in enhancing the performance of quantum computation, following the success of Zuchongzhi-2. The research finding has been published as the cover article in the international academic journal Physical Review Letters.